ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1994 CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (SYARIAH) CODE 1994
PART VII - SUPPLEMENTARY PROVISIONS CHAPTER 29 - GENERAL
Section 210. Compensation for giving in charge groundlessly.
(1) Whenever any person causes a Religious Enforcement Officer or a police officer to arrest another person, if it appears to the Judge who takes cognisance of the case that there was no sufficient ground for causing such arrest, the Judge may award such compensation, not exceeding five hundred ringgit, to be paid by the person so causing the arrest to each person so arrested for his loss of time and any expenses incurred by him in the matter as the Judge shall think fit.
(2) Such compensation shall be no bar to an action for false imprisonment.