Original Enactment


SABAH

ENACTMENT NO. 6 OF 2004
SYARIAH COURTS ENACTMENT 2004

Date of Royal Assent :30 August 2004
Date of publication in the Gazette :14 October 2004
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 - SYARIAH COURTS

Constitution and jurisdiction.

Section 4. Establishment of Syariah Courts.
Section 5. Appointment of State Chief Syar'ie Judge.
Section 6. Appointment of Syariah Appeal Court Judges.
Section 7. Appointment of Syariah Subordinate Court Judges.
Section 8. Tenure of Office of Syariah Court Judges.
Section 9. Appointment of Syariah Subordinate Court Judges.
Section 10. Appointment of Chief Registrar, Registrar and Deputy Registrars and Assistant Registrars.
Section 11. Jurisdiction of Syariah High Court.
Section 12. Jurisdiction of Syariah Subordinate Court.
Section 13. Appeal to Syariah High Court.
Section 14. Application for leave to appeal.
Section 15. Certification of inheritance.
Section 16. Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction of Syariah High Court.
Section 17. Jurisdiction of Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 18. Supervisory and revisionary, jurisdiction of Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 19. Composition of Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 20. Decision by the majority.
Section 21. Continuation of proceedings in Syariah Appeal Court notwithstanding absence of Judge.
Section 22. Open Court.
Section 23. Court Seal.
Section 24. Language.
Section 25. Record and Account.
Section 26. Jurisdiction does not extend to non-Muslims.
Section 27. Reciprocal action.
Section 28. Protection of State Chief Syar'ie Judge, Syar'ie judge, Court officials, etc.
Section 29. Rules Committee of the Syariah Courts.

PART III - PROSECUTION AND REPRESENTATION

Section 30. Appointment of Chief Syar'ie Prosecutor and Syar'ie Prosecutors.
Section 31. Appointment Chief Religious Enforcement Officers and Religious Enforcement Officers.
Section 32. Syar'ie Lawyer.
Section 33. Syar'ie judge and Syar'ie Prosecutor Code of Ethics.

PART IV - REPEAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISION

Section 34. Repeal and transitional provision.
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