Criminal Procedure Code · Updated to 1 May 2023 · Chapter XXXIX · Special Provisions Relating to Evidence
400. How previous conviction or acquittal may be proved
Feedback & supportIn any inquiry, trial or other proceeding under this Code a previous conviction or acquittal or an order directing any person to be under the supervision of the police may be proved in addition to any other mode provided by any law for the time being in force—
inquiry
“inquiry” includes every inquiry conducted under this Code before a Magistrate;
by an extract certified under the hand of the officer having the custody of the records of the Court whether of Malaysia or the Republic of Singapore in which that conviction or acquittal was had to be a copy of the sentence or order; or
in case of a conviction either by a certificate signed by the officer in charge of the prison in Malaysia or the Republic
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of Singapore in which the punishment or any part of it was inflicted, or by production of the warrant of commitment under which the punishment was suffered, together with, in each of those cases, evidence as to the identity of the accused person with the person so convicted or acquitted.
In case the officer in charge of any prison shall state in any certificate signed by him that the fingerprints which appear on the certificate are those of the person to whom the certificate relates, that certificate shall be evidence of the fact so stated.
Every Court shall presume to be genuine every document purporting to be a certificate of conviction and purporting to be signed by the officer in charge of any prison in Malaysia or the Republic of
Court
“Court” means the High Court, a Sessions Court, or a Magistrate’s Court of any class, as the context may require;
Singapore, and shall also presume that the officer by whom the document purports to be signed was when he signed it the officer in charge of the prison mentioned in that document.