Syariah Criminal Procedure (Federal Territories) Act 1997 s 141
s 141 Stay of execution pending appeal
Except in the case of sentence of whipping, the execution of which shall be stayed pending appeal, no appeal shall operate as a stay of execution, but the Court appealed from or the Syariah High Court may stay execution on any judgment, order, conviction or sentence pending appeal, on such terms as to security for the payment of any money or the performance or non-performance of any act or the suffering of any punishment ordered by or in such judgment, order, conviction or sentence as to the Court appealed from or the Syariah High Court may seem reasonable.
Malay text (authoritative)
Penggantungan pelaksanaan sementara menanti rayuan
Kecuali dalam hal hukuman sebat, yang pelaksanaannya hendaklah ditangguhkan sementara menanti rayuan, tiada rayuan boleh berkuat kuasa sebagai penggantungan pelaksanaan, tetapi Mahkamah yang terhadap keputusannya rayuan itu dibuat atau Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah boleh menggantung pelaksanaan mana-mana penghakiman, perintah, sabitan atau hukuman sementara
menanti rayuan, atas apa-apa terma tentang jaminan bagi pembayaran apa-apa wang atau pelaksanaan atau ketidaklaksanaan mana-mana perbuatan atau penjalanan mana-mana hukuman yang diperintahkan oleh atau dalam penghakiman, perintah, sabitan atau hukuman itu sebagaimana yang difikirkan munasabah oleh Mahkamah yang terhadap keputusannya rayuan itu dibuat atau oleh Mahkamah Tinggi Syariah.
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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).
