Enactment No 3 Of 1991 ADMINISTRATION OF ISLAMIC LAW ENACTMENT 1991
PART II - THE MAJLIS UGAMA ISLAM DAN ADAT RESAM MELAYU PAHANG
Section 39. The Hukum Syarak Consultative Committee.
(1) There shall be committee to be known as the Hukum Syarak Consultative Committee.
(2) The Committee shall consist of-
(a) the Mufti as Chairman;
(b) two members of the Majlis to be appointed by the Majlis;
(c) an officer of the Pahang Islamic Religious Department who is well versed in Hukum Syarak to be appointed by the Majlis; and
(d) at least two, but not more than six persons to be appointed by the Majlis, being persons who are well versed in Hukum Syarak.
(3) The persons who immediately before the coming into force of this section were appointed members of the Syariah Committee established under section 37 of the 1982 Enactment shall be deemed to have been elected or appointed to be members of the Hukum Syarak Consultative Committee and shall continue to be such members until the expiry of their term of appointment.
(4) The Chairman and two other members of the Committee, one of whom shall not be a member of the Majlis, shall form a quorum.
(5) Whenever the Mufti proposes to make a fatwa under section 36, he shall call a meeting of the Committee for the purpose of discussing the question in respect of which a fatwa is to be made.
(6) The Committee shall consider the said proposal and shall, unless in its opinion the issue referred to is frivolous or for some other reasons ought not be decided, prepare a draft fatwa thereon and if the draft fatwa is approved unanimously by the Committee, the Mufti may make a fatwa pursuant to section 36.
(7) Before the Mufti makes a fatwa, he may direct a study or research to be conducted and a working paper be prepared.