(1) In this Enactment unless the context otherwise requires----
"bailiff" includes the Registrar or any clerk or officer of the Court charged with performing the duties of a bailiff:
"form" means a form set out in the Third Schedule, and a form referred to by a number means the form so numbered in that Schedule;
"prescribed" means prescribed by rules made under this Enactment;
"Administration Enactment" means the Administration of the Religion of Islam (Perak) Enactment 2004 [Enactment No. 4 of 2004];
"Judge" or "Syariah Judge" means the Chief Syariah Judge, a Judge of the Syariah High Court or a Judge of the Syariah Subordinate Court, as the case may be, appointed under the Administration Enactment;
"day of appearance" means the day appointed in any summons or other proceedings for the appearance of the defendant or any other day for hearing of the proceedings;
"lien" means a right on the property of a judgment debtor to the extent of the indebtedness;
"Court" or "Syariah Court" has the meaning assigned thereto in the Administration Enactment;
"Majlis" has the meaning assigned thereto in the Administration Enactment;
"notice" means written notice unless the Court in any case shall order otherwise;
"minor" means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years;
"person under disability" includes an infant, a person of unsound mind and a person prohibited from administering his property;
"Peguam Syarie" has the meaning assigned thereto in the Administration Enactment;
"judgment creditor" means person having the right to enforce judgment for payment of money either by instalment or otherwise;
"Registrar" means the Chief Registrar of the Syariah Appeal Court, the Registrar of the Syariah Subordinate Court, as the case may be, appointed under the Administration Enactment;
"judgment" includes grounds of judgment;
"judgment debtor" means a person liable under any judgment for payment of money;
"certified translation" means a translation of any document certified as correct by an officer of the Court or by any other person accepted by the Court.
(2) All words and expressions used in this Enactment and not herein defined but defined in Part I of the Interpretation Acts 1948 and 1967 [Act 388] shall have the meanings assigned thereto in that Part to the extent that such meanings do not conflict with Hukum Syarak.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt as to the identity of interpretation of words and expressions used in this Enactment that are listed in the First Schedule, reference may be made to the Arabic script for those words and expressions as shown against them therein.