Enactment No 3 Of 1991 ADMINISTRATION OF ISLAMIC LAW ENACTMENT 1991
PART III - SYARIAH COURTS
Section 47. Jurisdiction of Syariah High Court.
(1) A Syariah High Court shall have jurisdiction throughout the State of Pahang and shall be presided over by a Syariah High Court Judge.
(2) A Syariah High Court shall-
(a) in its criminal jurisdiction, try all offences committed by a Muslim and punishable under this Enactment or the Islamic Family Law Enactment 1987 [Enact. 3/87] or under any other written law which confers the Syariah Courts jurisdiction to try any offence, and may impose any punishment provided therein; and
(b) in its civil (mal) jurisdiction, hear and determine all actions and proceedings in which all the parties are Muslims and which relate to-
(i) betrothal, marriage, divorce, dissolution of marriage (fasakh) or judicial separation (faraq);
(ii) any disposition of or claim to property arising out of any of the matters set out in subparagraph (i);
(iii) the maintenance of dependants, legitimacy or guardianship or custody of infants (hadzanah);
(iv) the division of or claims to harta sepencarian;
(v) wills or death-bed gifts (maradhul maut) of a deceased Muslim;
(vi) gifts inter vivos, or settlement made without adequate consideration in money or money's worth, by a Muslim;
(vii) wakaf or nazar;
(viii) division and inheritance of will or non-will property of a Muslim; and
(ix) other matters in respect of which jurisdiction is conferred by any written law.