Singapore legislation
Clause 35
Clause 35
Jurisdiction
(1)
The Court shall have jurisdiction throughout Singapore and shall be presided over by the Registrar or such other male Muslim as the President of Singapore may appoint.
(2)
The Court shall hear and determine all actions and proceedings in which all the parties are Muslims or where the parties were married under the provisions of the Muslim law and which involve disputes relating to —
marriage;
divorces known in the Muslim law as fasakh, cherai taalik, kholo’ and talak, and recalcitrancy or nushuz;
betrothal, nullity of marriage or judicial separation;
the disposition or division of property on divorce; or
the payment of mas-kahwin, maintenance and consolatory gifts or matta’ah.
(3)
In all questions regarding betrothal, marriage, dissolution of marriage, including talak, cherai taalik, kholo’ and fasakh, nullity of marriage or judicial separation, nushuz, the appointment of hakam, the disposition or division of property on divorce, the payment of mas-kahwin and consolatory gifts or matta’ah and the payment of maintenance on divorce the rule of decision where the parties are Muslims or were married under the provisions of the Muslim law shall, subject to the provisions of this Act, be the Muslim law, as varied by Malay custom.