ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1966 SHAR'IYAH COURTS AND MUSLIM MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ENACTMENT, 1966
Jurisdiction
Section 10A. Inheritance certificates.
If, in the course of any proceedings relating to the administration or distribution of the estate of a deceased person who professed the Islamic religions, any Court or authority, other than the Court of the Kadhi Besar or a Court of a Kadhi, shall he under the duty of determining the persons entitled to share in such estate, or the shares to which such persons are respectively entitled, the Court of a Kadhi, if the gross value of the estate does not appear to him to exceed $5,000, and the Court of the Kadhi Besar in any case, may, on request by such Court or authority, or on the application of any person claiming to be a beneficiary and on payment by him of the prescribed fee, certify, upon any set of facts found by such Court or authority, or on any hypothetical set of facts, its opinion as to the persons who are, assuming such facts, whether as found or hypothetical, entitled to share in such estate and as to the shares to which they are respectively entitled. The Court of the Kadhi Besar or Kadhi may, before so certifying its opinion, require to hear the parties on any question of law, but shall not hear evidence or make findings on any question of fact. In any case of special difficulty the Kadhi Besar or a Kadhi may refer the question to the Juma'ah Pengadilan for its opinion, and shall if such opinion be given, certify in accordance therewith.