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(1) A Religious Enforcement Officer or police officer making an arrest without a warrant under this Code shall without unnecessary delay and subject to the provisions of this Code as to bail or previous release, bring or send the person arrested before the Syariah Court.
(2) No Religious Enforcement Officer or police officer shall detain in custody a person arrested without a warrant for a longer period than under all the circumstances of the case is reasonable.
(3) Such period shall not ordinarily exceed 48 hours, exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Syariah Court.
(4) When a person arrested is brought before the Syariah Court, the
Syariah Court shall immediately hear the charge against him or adjourn the case.
(5) When any Syar'ie Judge before whom the accused person is brought under this section, whether he has jurisdiction or not to try the case, he may authorise the remand of the accused person in any such custody as the Syar'ie Judge thinks fit on reasonable grounds and for a reasonable period. If he has no authority to try the case and considers that it is unnecessary to detain the accused, he may order that the accused be sent before a Syar'ie Judge having authority to try the accused or, if the case is triable only by the Syariah High Court, before the Syariah High Court Judge.
(6) A Syar'ie Judge authorising under this section the remand of any a person in the custody of the police shall record his reasons for so doing.

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(7) If the case against the accused is adjourned, the person shall, unless he is released on bail, be remanded in prison or police custody under a warrant of remand issued by a Syar'ie Judge.

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(1)

A Religious Enforcement Officer or police officer making an arrest without a warrant under this Code shall without unnecessary delay and subject to the provisions of this Code as to bail or previous release, bring or send the person arrested before the Syariah Court.

(2)

No Religious Enforcement Officer or police officer shall detain in custody a person arrested without a warrant for a longer period than under all the circumstances of the case is reasonable.

(3)

Such period shall not ordinarily exceed 48 hours, exclusive of the time necessary for the journey from the place of arrest to the Syariah Court.

(4)

When a person arrested is brought before the Syariah Court, the

Syariah Court shall immediately hear the charge against him or adjourn the case.

(5)

When any Syar'ie Judge before whom the accused person is brought under this section, whether he has jurisdiction or not to try the case, he may authorise the remand of the accused person in any such custody as the Syar'ie Judge thinks fit on reasonable grounds and for a reasonable period. If he has no authority to try the case and considers that it is unnecessary to detain the accused, he may order that the accused be sent before a Syar'ie Judge having authority to try the accused or, if the case is triable only by the Syariah High Court, before the Syariah High Court Judge.

(6)

A Syar'ie Judge authorising under this section the remand of any a person in the custody of the police shall record his reasons for so doing.

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(7)

If the case against the accused is adjourned, the person shall, unless he is released on bail, be remanded in prison or police custody under a warrant of remand issued by a Syar'ie Judge.