ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1994 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SYARIAH) CODE 1994
PART IV - PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS CHAPTER 11 - GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO TRIALS
Section 101. Court may put questions to accused.
(1) For the purpose of enabling the accused to explain any circumstances appearing in the evidence against him, the Court may at any stage of a trial, without previously warning the accused, put such questions to him as the Court considers necessary.
(2) The answers given by the accused may be taken into consideration in such trial and put in evidence for or against him in any trial for any other offence which such answers may tend to show he has committed.
(3) The examination conducted under this section shall not be a gen,eral examination on whatever suggests itself to the Court and shall not be conducted for the purpose of inducing him to make statements criminatory of himself.
(4) The discretion given by this section shall only be exercised for the purpose of ascertaining from the accused how he may be able to meet facts disclosed in evidence against Jhim, so that those facts may not stand against him unexplained.
(5) Questions shall not be put to the accused merely to supplement the case for the prosecution.
(6) Whenever the accused is examined under this section by the Court the whole of such examination including every question put to him and every answer given by him shall be reco~ded in full, and such record shall be read to him or, if he does not understand the language used, shall be interpreted to him in a language or gesture which he understands, and he shall be at liberty to explain or add to his answers.
(7) When the whole. examination has been made to accurately record wh .at the accused declares to be the truth the record sh: all be signed by the presiding Judge.