N.S, 0.0, 1/38 MUHAMMADA. 8) NEGRI SEMBILAN. ORDER IN COUNCIL No. 1 OF 1938, MUHAMMADAN (OFFENCES). Council to amend and consolidate the law relating to Title [14th Aprit, 1938.] Date, ot ‘ment 1) This Order in Council may be cited as the Muham- ster sue (Offences) Order in Council, 1938, and shell come into **""™ Publication thereof in the Gazette jpon the coming into foree of this Order in Couneil the ment specified in the schedule hereto shall be repealed. All persons professing the Muhammadan religion shall be Application. get to this Order in Council, and no other persons shall be thereto. I (i) Any male person over the age of fifteen years residing A\enlace three miles of a Mosque who, without reasonable excuse * “™*" communicated ab the earliest possible moment to the Mosque Official shall fail to attend Prayers at such gue on every Friday or who shell fail, except with the sion of a Mosque Official, to remain in the Mosque to hear Heaching of the Imam or Ulama whether such teaching is ed before or after Saalam shall be liable on conviction 2 the Court of a Penghulu to a fine not exceeding five dollars ‘or the purposes of this section ‘Mosque Official’ shall le a Nazir, a Penghulu Mesjid, an Imam, a Bilal and a (i) From and after the commencement of this Order in Rotice il it shall be lawful for the Secretary to the Koran Instrue- ‘2.003, 1 Committee, for the Visiting Teacher or the Assistant Visiting {

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47, When in a case tried with the aid of assessors under this. 2utsmnt jeder in Council the cases for the prosecution and the defence and POrder seccutor's reply (if any), are concluded, the Court may sum i fie evidence for the prosecution and defence and shall then Pine each of the assessors to state his opinion orally, and shall ead such opinion. The Court shall then give judgment; but ng co shall not be bound to conform to the opinions of the ors. If the accused is convicted, the Court shall pass fence on him according to law. Hie. All fines imposed under this Order in Council shall on recovered from the offenders be paid in to the District gaury to the credit of a fund to be termed the “Muhammadan Fund"; and no payments shell be made out of such except on the written order of His Highness the Yang-di- partuan Besar or of such officer or officers as His Highness may mm time to time empower in that behalf. Disposal ot fines ‘Tue ScHEDULE. ENACTMENT REPEALED. Short title. Extont of repeal ‘The Muhammadan Laws Enactment (Cap. 198 of the Revised Edition of the Laws)... .... The whole. [New page. @.N. 1186 of March 6th, 1939.) 26a (¥)