Original Enactment

SARAWAK

CHAPTER 42
SYARIAH COURTS ORDINANCE,2001

Date of Royal Assent :10 December 2001
Date of publication in the Gazette :27 December 2001
Date of coming into operation :1 December 2004 [Swk. L.N. 153/2004]
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Preamble

PART I - PRELIMINARY

Section 1. Short title and commencement.
Section 2. Interpretation.

PART II - SYARIAH COURTS

Section 3. Constitution of Syariah Courts.
Section 4. Appointment of Chief Syariah Judge.
Section 5. Appointment of Judges of the Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 6. Appointment of Judges of the Syariah High Court.
Section 7. Tenure of office of Judges of the Syariah Courts.
Section 8. Appointment of Judges of the Syariah Subordinate Courts.
Section 9. Appointment of a Chief Registrar, a Registrar and Assistant Registrars.
Section 10. Jurisdiction of Syariah High Court.
Section 11. Jurisdiction of Syariah Subordinate Courts.
Section 12. Appeals to the Syariah High Court.
Section 13. Application for leave to appeal.
Section 14. Inheritance certificates.
Section 15. Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction of Syariah High Court.
Section 16. Jurisdiction of the Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 17. Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction of Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 18. Composition of Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 19. Decision by majority.
Section 20. Continuation of proceedings in Syariah Appeal Court notwithstanding absence of Judge.
Section 21. Open Court.
Section 22. Seals of Courts, language and records.
Section 23. Jurisdiction does not extend to non-Muslims.
Section 24. Reciprocal action and process of Court.
Section 25. Protection of Judges, Courts officials, etc.

PART III - PROSECUTION AND REPRESENTATION

Section 26. Appointment of Chief Syariah Prosecutor and Syariah Prosecutors.
Section 27. Appointment of Chief Religious Enforcement Officer and Religious Enforcement Officers.
Section 28. Peguam Syarie.

PART IV - REPEAL, SAVING AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Section 29. Repeal, saving and transitional provisions.
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