Syariah Courts Criminal Procedure Code · s 218

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s 218Stay of execution pending appeal

(1)

Subject to the provisions of this Code and except in sentences for offences which impose sentence of whipping, the execution of which shall be stayed pending appeal, no appeal shall operate as a stay of execution, but the

Syariah Courts 130 CAP.224

Criminal Procedure Code

Syariah Court passing the sentence 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 the Syariah Court passing the sentence or the Syariah High Court thinks reasonable.

(2)

Offenders who are sentenced to whipping only shall be remanded in prison pending the determination of the appeal and the provisions in section 184(a), (b) and (c) apply.