ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1994 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SYARIAH) CODE 1994
PART II - GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO CRIMINAL COURT CHAPTER 3 - OF ARREST, ESCAPE AND RE-ARREST
Section 18. Refusal to give name and residence.
(1) When any person in the presence of a Religious Enforcement Officer or police officer commits or is accused of committing a non-seizable offence and refuses on the demand of such officer to give his name and residence or gives a name and residence which such officer has reason to believe to be false, he may be arrested by such officer in order that his name and residence may be ascertained, and he shall, within twenty-four hours of the arrest, exclusive of the time necessary for the journey,be taken before the nearest Syariah Judge unless before that time his true name and residence are ascertained in which case such person shall be forthwith released on his executing a bond for his appearance before a Syariah Judge if so required.
(2) When any person is thus taken before a Syariah Judge, such Judge may either require him to execute a bond, with a surety, for his appearance before a Syariah Judge if so required, or may order him to be detained in custody until he can be tried.
(3) When any person in the presence of a Religious Enforcement or Police Officer commits or is accused of committing a non-seizable offence and on the demand of such officer to give his name and residence gives as his residence a place outside the State of Perak Darul Ridzuan, he may be arrested by such officer and shall be taken forthwith before the nearest Syariah Judge who may require him to execute a bond with a surety for his appearance before a Syariah Judge if so required or may order him to be detained in custody until he can be tried.