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Syariah Criminal Procedure (Federal Territories) Act 1997 s 192

Syariah Criminal Procedure (Federal Territories) Act 1997 s 192

s 192 Procedure when person able to give material evidence is dangerously ill

(1) Whenever it appears to a Judge that any person able to give material evidence either for the prosecution or defence in relation to a seizable offence, is so dangerously ill that it is not practicable to take his evidence according to the usual course of law, that Judge may take the deposition of such person provided such reasonable notice as the case admits has been given to the Prosecutor and the accused of the intention to take it and of the time and place at which the Judge intends to take it. (2) If the accused is in custody, a Judge may order the officer in charge of the prison to convey him to the place at the time notified and that officer shall convey him accordingly. (3) When it is proved at the trial of the accused for any offence to which such deposition relates that the deponent is dead or that for any sufficient cause his attendance cannot be procured, the deposition may be read either for or against the accused, notwithstanding his absence when it was taken, if it is certified under the hand of the Judge who took it and the contrary is not proved, or if it is shown by extrinsic evidence that the deponent was at the time of his examination dangerously ill as mentioned in subsection (1) and that the deposition was duly taken at the place and time notified and that reasonable notice of the intention to take it was given to the person against whom it is tendered in evidence, so that he or his Peguam Syarie might have been present and might have had, if he had chosen to be present, full opportunity of cross-examination.

Malay text (authoritative)

Tatacara apabila orang yang dapat memberikan keterangan material sakit tenat

(1) Apabila ternyata kepada seseorang Hakim bahawa mana-mana orang yang dapat memberikan keterangan material sama ada bagi pihak pendakwa atau pihak pembela berhubungan dengan sesuatu kesalahan boleh tangkap sakit tenat sehinggakan tidak praktik untuk mengambil keterangannya mengikut perjalanan biasa undang-undang, Hakim itu boleh mengambil deposisi orang itu dengan syarat apa-apa notis yang munasabah sebagaimana yang mungkin dalam kes itu telah diberikan kepada Pendakwa dan tertuduh tentang cadangan mengambil deposisi itu dan tentang masa dan tempat di mana Hakim itu bercadang mengambilnya. (2) Jika tertuduh berada dalam jagaan, seorang Hakim boleh memerintahkan pegawai yang menjaga penjara itu menghantar tertuduh ke tempat itu pada waktu yang telah diberitahukan dan pegawai itu hendaklah menghantarnya dengan sewajarnya. (3) Apabila dibuktikan pada perbicaraan tertuduh atas mana-mana kesalahan yang berhubungan dengan deposisi itu bahawa deponennya telah mati atau bahawa kerana apa-apa sebab yang mencukupi kehadirannya tidak dapat diperoleh, deposisi itu bolehlah dibacakan sama ada bagi atau terhadap tertuduh, walaupun dia tidak hadir semasa deposisi itu diambil, jika deposisi itu diperakui di bawah tandatangan Hakim yang mengambilnya dan yang sebaliknya tidak dibuktikan, atau jika ditunjukkan melalui keterangan ekstrinsik bahawa deponen memang pada masa pemeriksaannya sakit tenat sebagaimana yang disebut dalam subseksyen (1) dan bahawa deposisi itu telah diambil dengan sewajarnya di tempat dan pada masa yang diberitahukan itu dan bahawa notis yang munasabah tentang niat untuk mengambilnya telah diberikan kepada orang yang terhadapnya deposisi itu dikemukakan sebagai keterangan, supaya dia atau Peguam Syarienya dapat hadir dan mendapat, jika dia memilih untuk hadir, peluang penuh untuk pemeriksaan balas.

Read this section in the full act β†’ Β· Open Chapter 4 β†’

Find Act 560 on lom.agc.gov.my β†—

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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