ENACTMENT NO 3 OF 1994 EVIDENCE (SYARIAH COURT) ENACTMENT 1994
PART II - PROOF CHARACTER III - FACTS WHICH NEED NOT BE PROVED
Section 44. Facts of which Court must take judicial notice.
(1) The Court shall take judicial notice of the following facts or any Part thereof -
(a) all laws or regulations now in force or heretofore in force or hereafter to be in force in Malaysia or any part hereof;
(b) articles of the Armed Forces for the Navy, Army and Air Forces;
(c) the course of proceedings in Parliament, in the Federal legislatures and in the legislatures of the States in Malaysia;
(d) the accession of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong, and the accession of the Sultan of any State in Malaysia and the appointment of a Yang di-Pertua Negeri;
(e) the seals of all the Syariah and civil courts in Malaysia, all seals which any person is authorized to use by any law for the time being in force in Malaysia or any part thereof, and of notaries public;
(f) the accession to office, names, titles, functions and signatures of the persons filling for the time being any public office in any part of Malaysia, if the fact of their appointment to such office is notified in the Federal Gazette or in any State Gazette;
(g) the ordinary course of nature, natural and artificial divisions of time, the geographical divisions of the \vorld, the meaning of Malay, English and Arabic words, public festivals, fasts and holidays notified in the Federal Gazette or in any State Gazette;
(h) the names of the members and officers of the Court and of their deputies and subordinate officers and assistants, and also of all officers acting in execution of its process and of all advocates and solicitors and peguam syaries and other persons authorised by law to appear or act before it;
(i) the rules of the road, sea regulations and the rules of the air;
(j) all other matters which the Court is directed by any written law to take notice.
(2) In all these cases, and also on all matters of public history, literature, science or art, the Court may resort for its aid to appropriate books or documents of reference.
(3) If the Court is called upon by any person to take judicial notice of any fact, it may refuse to do so unless and until the person produces any such book or document as it considers necessary to enable it do so.
(4) For the purpose of the provision of subsection (1) (d) Sultan includes Raja and Yang di-Pertuan Besar.