ENACTMENT NO. 8 OF 2002
SYARIAH CRIMINAL PROCEDURE ENACTMENT 2002

PART V
PROCEEDINGS IN PROSECUTIONS

CHAPTER 5
GENERAL PROVISIONS AS TO TRIALS



Section 109. Detention of offenders attending in Court.


(1) Any person attending a Court, although not under arrest or upon a summons, may be detained by such Court for the purpose
of examination for any offence of which such Court can take cognizance and which, from the evidence, he may appear to have
committed, and may be proceeded against as though he had been arrested or summoned.

(2) When the detention takes place after a trial has been begun, the proceedings in respect of such person shall be commenced
fresh and the witnesses re-heard.



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