ENACTMENT NO. 2 OF 1992 ADMINISTRATION OF ISLAMIC LAW ENACTMENT 1992
PART I - PRELIMINARY
Section 2. Interpretation.
(1) In this Enactment, unless the context otherwise requires -
"ahli kariah" means a person who is permanently or habitually resident in the kariah masjid;
"Chief Syariah Judge" means the Chief Syariah Judge appointed under section 41 (1);
"Chief Syariah Prosecutor" means an officer appointed under section 57 (1);
"Court" or "Syariah Court" means the Syariah Subordinate Court, the Syariah HIgh Court, or the Syariah Appeal Court, as the case may be constituted under section 40;
"Hukum Syara" means Islamic Law according to Mazhab Shafie or any other Mazhab that is recognised;
"Jawatankuasa Kariah" means a Jawatankuasa Kariah established under section 67 (1);
"kariah" or "kariah masjid" in relation to a mosque, means the area, or boundary determined under section 63, in which the mosque is situated;
"Majlis" means the Majlis Agama Islam dan Adat Melayu Perak established under section 4(1);
"mosque" in section 60 means a building or place used for holding Friday and other prayers and activities enjoined, approved or encouraged by the religion of Islam, and in other sections means any mosque approved by the Majlis and listed in the records of the Jabatan Agama Islam Perak;
"mosque official" means a person appointed as Imam, Bilal or Siak under section 64 (1) for any mosque;
"Mufti" means Mufti Negeri Perak Darul Ridzuan appointed under section 32 and includes his Deputy;
"Muslim" means -
(a) a person who professes the religion of Islam;
(b) a person either or both of whose parents were, at the time of the person's birth, a muslim;
(c) a person who was from bith brought up as a Muslim or whose upbringing was conducted on the basis that he was a Muslim;
(d) a person who embracedd Islam in accordance with section 96 or by virtue of section 98;
(e) a person who is commonly reputed to be a Muslim; or
(f) a person who is shown to have stated, in circumstances in which he was bound by law to State the truth, that he was a Muslim, whether the statement be verbal or written;
"Peguam Syarie" means a person who is admitted to be a Peguam Syarie under section 59;
"President" means the President of the Majlis;
"Religious Enforcement Officer" means an officer appointed as such under section 58;
"Secretary" means the Secretary of the Majlis mentioned in section 15 or any person who performs the functions as Head of the said Department;
"Syariah Judge" means a Judge appointed under section 41 (1);
"Syariah Subordinate Court Judge" means a Syariah Subordinate Court Judge appointed under section 42 (1);
"1965 Enactment" emans the Administration of Muslim Law Enactment 1965 for the State of Perak Darul Ridzuan.
(2) All words and expressions used in this Enactment and not herein defined but defined in the Interpretation Act 1967 shall have the meanings thereby assigned to them respectively to the extent that such meanings do not conflict with Hukum Syara'.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt as to the identity or interpretation of the words or 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.