ENACTMENT NO 4 OF 1955
ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT, 1955 (1374H)

PART VI - MOSQUES



Section 89. Appointment of Imam.

(1) It shall be the duty of the Legal Committee upon learning of any vacancy or impending vacancy in the office of Chief Imam or Imam of any mosque to make enquiry for possible candidates for such appointment and, after due examination of the qualifications of such possible candidates, recommend to the Commissioner two or more of them as candidates for election.

(2) An election shall be held in the mukim, for which all adult male Muslims ordinarily there resident shall be entitled to be registered as voters, and the persons so selected by the Commissioner with the advice of the Legal Committee, but no other person, shall be entitled to stand as candidates for election.

(3) The Commissioner with the advice of the Legal Committee, 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 Chief Imam or Imam of any mosque.

(5) Every person appointed to be an Imam shall receive a Tauliah under the seal of His Highness the Sultan.




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