Section 37

Where in any criminal proceeding before a subordinate court in the States of Malaya a sentence has been passed by the court in exercise of the special powers of punishment conferred by section 64 (2) or by section 87 (2) (as the case may be) of the Subordinate Courts Act, 1948, and no notice of appeal has been lodged against the sentence according to the law for the time being in force relating to criminal procedure, the subordinate court shall transmit the record of the proceeding to the High Court so that the High Court may satisfy itself as to the correctness, legality or propriety of the sentence, and the High Court may thereupon exercise the powers conferred upon it by section 31.