Original Enactment


SABAH

ENACTMENT NO. 7 OF 2004
FATWA ENACTMENT 2004

Date of Royal Assent :30 August 2004
Date of publication in the Gazette :14 October 2005
Date of coming into operation :1 June 2005
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Preamble

PART I - PRELIMINARY

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

PART II - THE APPOINTMENT AND FUNCTIONS OF THE MUFTI, POWER OF THE STATE FATWA COUNCIL AND FATWA RELATING TO MATTER OF NATIONAL INTEREST

Section 4. Appointment of Mufti and Deputy Mufti.
Section 5. Functions of the Mufti.
Section 6. State Fatwa Council.
Section 7. Power of the State Fatwa Council to prepare a fatwa.
Section 8. Procedure in making a Fatwa.
Section 9. A Fatwa published in the Gazette is binding.
Section 10. Amendment, modification or revocation of Fatwa.
Section 11. Fatwa which relates to matters of national interest.
Section 12. Adoption of advice and recommendation of National Fatwa Committee.
Section 13. Request for opinion of State Fatwa Council.
Section 14. Qaul muktamad to be followed.
Section 15. Protection for Mufti and member of State Fatwa Council.

PART III - GENERAL

Section 16. Rules.
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