Original Enactment


SABAH

ENACTMENT NO. 14 OF 1992
SYARIAH COURTS ENACTMENT 1992

Date of Royal Assent :30 December 1992
Date of publication in the Gazette :31 December 1992
Date of coming into operation :1 January [GN 648/95]
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. Constitution of Syariah Courts.
Section 5. Court's seal, language and record.
Section 6. Appointment of Judges.
Section 7. Tenure of office of Syariah Court Judges.
Section 8. Appointment of Syariah Lower Court Judges.
Section 9. Appointment of Chief Registrar, Registrar and Assistant Registrar.
Section 10. Jurisdiction of Syariah High Court.
Section 11. Jurisdiction of Syariah Lower Court.
Section 12. Appeal to the Syariah High Court.
Section 13. Application for leave to appeal.
Section 14. Certification in respect of estate.
Section 15. Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction of Syariah High Court.
Section 16. Jurisdiction of Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 17. Supervisory and revisionary jurisdiction of the Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 18. Membership of the Syariah Appeal Court.
Section 19. Majority decision.
Section 20. Continuation of proceedings in Syariah Appeal Court notwithstanding absence of Syarie Judge.
Section 21. Exclusion of non-Muslim from jurisdiction.
Section 22. Rules on appeal.

PART III - PROSECUTION AND DELEGATION

Section 23. Appointment of Syarie Prosecutors and Religious Enforcement Officers.
Section 24. Syarie Lawyer.

PART IV - GENERAL

Section 25. Temporary application on pending cases.
Section 26. Change of name of Mahkamah Kadi.
Section 27. Syariah Appeal Committee.
Section 28. Repeal.
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