Original Enactment

PULAU PINANG

ENACTMENT NO. 7 OF 1993
ADMINISTRATION OF ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS ENACTMENT OF THE STATE OF PENANG 1993

Date of Royal Assent :31 March 1994
Date of publication in the Gazette :28 April 1994
Date of coming into operation :31 March 1994
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Preamble

PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

Section 1. Short title, application, and commencement
Section 2. Interpretation
Section 3. Saving of prerogative

PART II - THE MAJLIS AGAMA ISLAM NEGERI PULAU PINANG

Section 4. Establishment of the Majlis
Section 5. Committees
Section 6. Membership of Majlis
Section 7. Termination of appointments
Section 8. Revocation of appointments
Section 9. Temporary appointments
Section 10. Appointments to be Gazetted
Section 11. Appointment of the Secretary
Section 12. Appointment of the Deputy Secretary and Assistant Secretary
Section 13. Attendance of non-members at meetings
Section 14. Presiding over meetings
Section 15. Quorum
Section 16. Counduct of Business
Section 17. Summoning of meetings
Section 18. Powers of Yang di - Pertua
Section 19. Duties and powers of Secretary
Section 20. Minutes
Section 21. Order of business and voting
Section 22. Copies of resolution
Section 23. Yang di - Pertua away from Penang
Section 24. Acting in emergency
Section 25. Delegation of duties and powers
Section 26. Secrecy
Section 27. Public servant
Section 28. Majlis may determine its own procedure
Section 29. Contracts and property
Section 30. Duty of the Majlis for sosio-economic development of Muslim
Section 31. Power to establish corporation
Section 32. Borrowing powers
Section 33. Authority of Majlis in religious Affairs

PART III - MUFTI AND SYARIAH COMMITTEE

Section 34. Appointment of Mufti
Section 35. Authority of Mufti
Section 36. Fatwa
Section 37. Form of fatwa
Section 38. Amendment, modification, or revocation of fatwa
Section 39. The Syariah Committee
Section 40. Request for opinion from the court
Section 41. Authorities to be followed
Section 42. Constitution of Syariah Courts
Section 43. Appointment of Chief Syariah Judge
Section 44. Appointment of Judges of the Syariah Appeal Court
Section 45. Appointment of Judges of the Syariah High Court
Section 46. Appointment of Judges of Syariah Subordinate Courts
Section 47. Registrars
Section 48. Jurisdiction of Syariah High Court
Section 49. Jurisdiction of Syariah Subordinate Court
Section 50. Appeal to High Court
Section 51. Application for leave to appeal
Section 52. Inheritance certificate
Section 53. Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction of the Syariah High Court
Section 54. Jurisdiction of Syariah Appeal Court
Section 55. Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction of the Syariah Appeal Court
Section 56. Composition of the Syariah Appeal Court
Section 57. Decision how to be made
Section 58. Continuation of proceeding in Syariah Appeal Court notwithstanding absence of Judge
Section 59. Rights, interests or properties of non-Muslim
Section 60. Appeal rules

PART V - PROSECUTION, ENFORCEMENT AND REPRESENTATION

Section 61. Syariah Prosecutors
Section 62. Religious Enforcement Officers
Section 63. Peguam Syarie

PART VI - MOSQUE AND BURIAL GROUNDS

Section 64. Trusteeship of mosques and related lands
Section 65. Restriction on establishment of mosque
Section 66. Maintenance of mosques and compounds
Section 67. Boundaries of Qaryah Masjid
Section 68. Appointment of the Pegawai Masjid
Section 69. Tauliah
Section 70. Tenure of office of Pegawai Masjid
Section 71. Control and direction officer Pegawai Masjid
Section 72. Abolition of office of Nazir
Section 73. The Jawatankuasa Qaryah
Section 74. Exemption
Section 75. Burial grounds

PART VII - CHARITABLE COLLECTIONS

Section 76. Charitable collections

PART VIII - CONVERSION TO ISLAM

Section 77. Capasity to convert into Islam
Section 78. Requirements for conversion to Islam
Section 79. Moment of conversion
Section 80. Conversion to Islam of children
Section 81. Duties and obligation of a convert
Section 82. Duties and obligation of a person who converted another person to Islam
Section 83. Register of Conversion
Section 84. Registration of Conversion
Section 85. Certificate of Conversion
Section 86. Recognition as Muslims
Section 87. Determining whether non-registered person is a convert
Section 88. Offence of giving false information
Section 89. Registrar of Conversion

PART IX - FINANCIAL MATTERS

Section 90. Establishment of Baitulmal
Section 91. Deposits
Section 92. Wakaf and nazar
Section 93. Vesting
Section 94. Restrictions on creation of charitable trusts
Section 95. Income of wakafand nazar
Section 96. Capital of wakafand nazar am
Section 97. Construction of instruments
Section 98. Annual Report
Section 99. Audit
Section 100. Wakafand nazarproperty
Section 101. Estimates
Section 102. Expenses of the Majlis
Section 103. Banks
Section 104. Power of the Majlis to collect Zakatand Fitrah
Section 105. Objections

PART X - GENERAL

Section 106. Allowances
Section 107. Rules
Section 108. Saving of Rules and appointment
Section 109. Transitional
Section 110. Cessation of the Enactment 3/1959

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