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Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act 1997 s 14

Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territories) Act 1997 s 14

s 14 Failure to perform Friday prayers

Any male person, being baligh, who fails to perform the Friday prayers in a mosque within his kariah for three consecutive weeks without uzur syarie or without any reasonable cause shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

Malay text (authoritative)

Tidak menunaikan sembahyang Jumaat

Mana-mana orang lelaki, yang baligh, yang tidak menunaikan sembahyang Jumaat di masjid dalam kariahnya tiga kali berturut-turut tanpa uzur syarie atau tanpa sebab yang munasabah adalah melakukan suatu kesalahan dan apabila disabitkan boleh didenda tidak melebihi satu ribu ringgit atau dipenjarakan selama tempoh tidak melebihi enam bulan atau kedua-duanya.

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Find Act 559 on lom.agc.gov.my ↗

Text as at 1 January 2006 (LOM reprint); amendments made after that date may not be incorporated.

Source: Laws of Malaysia, Attorney General's Chambers of Malaysia (lom.agc.gov.my). Not a copy of the Gazette printed by the Government Printer (Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967, s 61).

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