Section 80. Appeals. (SHAR'IYAH COURTS AND MUSLIM MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ENACTMENT, 1966

ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1966
SHAR'IYAH COURTS AND MUSLIM MATRIMONIAL CAUSES ENACTMENT, 1966

PART III - MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

Section 80. Appeals.

(1) Any person aggrieved by any order, act, refusal or ommission of a Registrar may within fourteen days from the date thereof appeal-

(a)

if the Registrar be the Kadhi Besar or

Kadhi, to the Juma'ah Pengadilan, or

(b)

in other cases, to the Kadhi of the district in which the Registrar acts as such.

(c)

from any decision of a Kadhi given on such an appeal a further appeal shall lie to the Juma'ah Pengadilan.

(2) The appellate authority may order the authority appealed from to do or refrain from any act which ought in the circumstances to have been done or omitted and may make such other order as justice may require; including an order for rectification of any register maintained under this Part of this Enactment.

(3) The decision of Juma'ah Pengadilan shall be final.