Section 19

When any person is taken before a Judge of a Syariah

Subordinate Court under subsection (1), such Judge may either require him to execute a bond, with a surety, for his appearance before a Judge if so required, or may order him to be detained in custody until he can be tried.

Syariah Criminal Procedure (Federal Territories) 27

When any person in the presence of a Religious Enforcement

Officer or police officer commits or is accused of committing a non-seizable offence and on the demand of such officer to give his name and residence gives as his residence a place outside the Federal

Territories, he may be arrested by such officer and shall be taken forthwith before the nearest Judge of a Syariah Subordinate Court who may require him to execute a bond, with a surety, for his appearance before a Judge if so required, or may order him to be detained in custody until he can be tried.

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