ENACTMENT NO 1 OF 1990 SYARIAH COURTS EVIDENCE ENACTMENT 1990
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 judical notice of the following facts or any part thereot:
(a) all laws or regulations having the force of law now or heretofore in force or to be in force in the Federation or any part thereof;
(b) articles of war of the armed forces for the Navy, Army and Air Force;
(c) the course of proceedings in Parliament, in the State Legislature 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 in the Federation or any part thereof and the seals of notaries public, and any seal which any person is authorised to use by any law in force for the time being in the Federation;
(f) the accession to office, names, titles, functions ana 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 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 Arabic words, and public festivals, fasts and holidays notified in the Federal or in any State Gazette;
(h) the names of the members and officers of the Syariah Courts and civil Courts and of their deputies, subordinate officers and assistants and the names of all officers acting in execution of its process, and the names of all advocates and solicitors and Peguam Syariah and other persons authorized by law to appear or act before it;
(i) the rules of the road on land or sea regulations or the rules of the air;
(j) all other matters which the Courts are 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 produces any such book or document as it considers necessary to enable it to do so.
(4) For the purpose of subsection (1) (d) Sultan also, includes Raja and the Yang di - Pertuan Besar.