(1) A Syariah High Court shall have jurisdiction throughout the State and shall be presided over by a Syariah High Court Judge.
(2) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the Chief Syarie Judge may sit as a Syariah High Court Judge and preside over such Court.
(3) A Syariah High Court shall-
(a) in its criminal jurisdiction, try any offence committed by a Muslim and punishable under any written law in force in relation to the administration of Islamic law, Islamic family law, syariah criminal procedure, syariah criminal offences, or under any other written law prescribing offences against precepts of the religion of Islam for the time being in force, and may impose any punishment provided therefore; and
(b) in its civil jurisdiction, hear and determine all actions and proceedings in which all the parties are Muslims and which relate to-
(i) betrothal, marriage, ruju’, divorce, nullity of marriage (fasakh), nusyuz, or judicial separation (mufaraqah) or other matters relating to the relationship between husband and wife;
(ii) a disposition of, or claim to, property arising out of the matters set out in subparagraph (i);
(iii) the maintenance of dependants, legitimacy, or guardianship or custody (hadhanah) of infants;
(iv) the division of or claims to harta sepencarian;
(v) will or death-bed gifts (marad-al-maut) of a deceased Muslim;
(vi) gifts inter-vivos, or settlements made without adequate consideration in money or money’s worth, by a Muslim;
(vii) wakaf or nazr;
(viii) division and inheritance of testate or intestate property;
(ix) the determination of persons entitled to share in the estate of a deceased Muslim or the shares to which such persons
are respectively entitled;
(x) a declaration that a person is no longer a Muslim;
(xi) a declaration that a deceased person was a Muslim or otherwise at the time of his death; or
(xii) other matters in respect of which jurisdiction is conferred by any written law.