ENACTMENT NO. 2 OF 1991 EVIDENCE ENACTMENT OF THE SYARIAH COURT 1991
PART II - PROOF CHAPTER 3 - 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 having the force of law now or heretofore in force or hereafter to be in force in Federation or any part thereof;
(b) articles of the armed forces for the Navy, Army and Air Forces;
(c) the course of proceedings in Parliament, State Legislative Assembly and State Executive Council;
(d) the accession of the Yang di -Pertuan Agong, and the accession of the Ruler of any State in Malaysia and the appointment of a Yang di-Pertua Negeri;
(e) the seals of all the Courts of the Federation or in any part thereof and the seals of notaries public, and all seals which any person is authorized to use by law in force for the time being in the Federation or any part thereof;
(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 the Federation, 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 world, the meaning of Malay, English and Arab words, and hari raya, fasting and public holidays notified in the Federal Gazette or in any State Gazette;
(h) the names of the members and officers of the Syariah Court and Civil Court and of their deputies and subordinate officers and assistant, and also of all officers acting in execution of its process, and of all advocates and solicitors and peguam syarie and other persons authorized by law to appear or act before it;
(i) the rule of the road on the land, or sea regulations or the rules of the air;
(j) all other matters which it is directed by any written law to notice.
(2) In all these cases, and also on all matters of art, science, literature or public history 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 produce any such book or document as it considers necessary to enable it to do so.
(4) For the purpose of the provision of subsection 1(d) Ruler include Sultan, and Yang di-Pertuan Besar.