ENACTMENT NO 3 OF 1994 EVIDENCE (SYARIAH COURT) ENACTMENT 1994
PART II – PROOF CHAPTER V - DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE Presumption as to Documents
Section 64. Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence.
Whenever any document is produced before any Court purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence or of any part of the evidence given by a witness in a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorised by law to take such evidence or to be a statement or iqrar by any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance with law and purporting to be signed by any Syariah Court Judge High Court or Session Court Judge or Magistret or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume that -
(a) the document is genuine;
(b) any statement as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true; and
(c) such evidence, statement or iqrar was duly taken.