States powerless to implement hudud, says Bar Council

Lim pronounced carrying twin punishment systems would be unconstitutional. File pic

KUALA LUMPUR, Sept 30 No state in Malaysia is empowered to implement hudud laws on their own as such matters tumble underneath sovereign jurisdiction, a Bar Council pronounced today.

Lim Chee Wee, who is Bar Council president, explained which a Federal Constitution usually authorised particular states to order laws as well as particular punishments for offences opposite Islam.

These offences, he pointed out, released those already supposing for underneath sovereign legislation as well as there cannot be any replication of state laws with a sovereign laws.

The law, as it stands, does not concede for a doing of hudud by a states, he pronounced in a statement today.

Lim additionally pronounced which it was unconstitutional to provide opposite forms of punishment for Muslims as well as non-Muslims.

These laws, if enacted, contingency themselves be unchanging with fundamental liberties on trial to all citizens, including Muslims, underneath Part II of a Federal Constitution.

Citing a Syariah Courts (Criminal Jurisdiction) Act 1965, a lawyer pronounced a penalties which syariah courts can mete out have been clearly circumscribed, as well as do not embody a punishments supposing underneath hudud.

Hudud, being radically penal laws, comes underneath a jurisdiction of a Federal Parliament.

The Ninth Schedule of a Federal Constitution lists criminal laws as well as procedure, as well as inner security as well as open order, underneath a Federal list, he said.

The Kelantan PAS supervision has pronounced which it will push forward with skeleton to implement hudud law despite a actuality which Pakatan Rakyat (PR) had progressing agreed which Islamic criminal law was not partial of the corner policy.

State PAS deputy commissioner II Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah was qu! oted by The Star today as observant which a doing of hudud law was usually a matter of time as well as which a party would take in to care a current situation connected with antithesis to a law.


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