ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1996 SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (STATE OF PENANG) ENACTMENT 1996
PART VI - OF APPEAL AND REVISION CHAPTER 2 - OF APPEALS TO THE SYARIAH APPEAL COURT
Section 156. Procedure where appelant in prison
(1) If the appellant is in prison, he shall be deemed to have complied with the requirements of sections 153 and 155 if he gives to the officer in charge of the prison either orally or in writing notice of appeal and the particulars required to be included in the petition of appeal within the time prescribed by those sections.
(2) The prison officer aforesaid shall forthwith forward the notice and petition or the purport thereof to the Registrar of the Syariah High Court at the place where the decision appealed against was given.