Perlembagaan Persekutuan
Except with respect to the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan
- Jurisdiction
- Malaysia
- Provision
- 1
- Source language
- English
- Recorded status
- in force
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- Recorded status
- in force
Provision text
Official source1. Except with respect to the Federal Territories of Kuala Lumpur, Labuan
and Putrajaya, Islamic law and personal and family law of persons professing
the religion of Islam, including the Islamic law relating to succession, testate
and intestate, betrothal, marriage, divorce, dower, maintenance, adoption,
legitimacy, guardianship, gifts, partitions and non-charitable trusts; Wakafs and
the definition and regulation of charitable and religious trusts, the appointment
of trustees and the incorporation of persons in respect of Islamic religious and
charitable endowments, institutions, trusts, charities and charitable institutions
operating wholly within the State; Malay customs; Zakat, Fitrah and Baitulmal
or similar Islamic religious revenue; mosques or any Islamic public place
of worship, creation and punishment of offences by persons professing the
religion of Islam against precepts of that religion, except in regard to matters
included in the Federal List; the constitution, organization and procedure of
Syariah courts, which shall have jurisdiction only over persons professing
the religion of Islam and in respect only of any of the matters included in
this paragraph, but shall not have jurisdiction in respect of offences except in
so far as conferred by federal law; the control of propagating doctrines and
beliefs among persons professing the religion of Islam; the determination of
matters of Islamic law and doctrine and Malay custom.
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Perlembagaan Persekutuan · lom.agc.gov.my · Retrieved 18 August 2026.
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