ENACTMENT NO. 3 OF 1952 ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT, 1952
PART V - MOSQUES
Section 116. Appointment of pegawai masjid.
(1) It shall be the duty of the Legal Committee upon learning of any vacancy or impending vacancy in the office of pegawai masjid in the State to make enquiry for possible candidates for such appointment and, after due examination of the qualifications of such possible candidates, to select two or more of them as candidates for election.
(2) An election shall be held in the kariah, for which all adult Muslims ordinarily there resident shall be entitled to be registered as voters, and the persons so selected by the Legal Committee, but no other persons, shall be entitled to stand as candidates
for election.
(3) The Majlis, on being satisfied that any candidate has been duly elected in manner aforesaid, shall submit his name to His Highness the Sultan with a recommendation that he be appointed to fill the vacancy in question.
(4) His Highness the Sultan may appoint any fit and proper person to be a pegawai masjid of any mosque.
(5) Every person appointed to be a pegawai masjid shall receive a Tauliah under the seal of His Highness the Sultan.