Administration of Muslim Law (Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund) Rules

These Rules may be cited as the Administration of Muslim Law (Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund) Rules.

In these Rules, unless the context otherwise requires —“Board” means the Central Provident Fund Board;“collector” means any person authorised by the Majlis to collect contributions to the Fund;“Fund” means the Mosque Building and Mendaki Fund established under section 76 of the Act;“tauliah” means a letter of authority issued by the Majlis to any person authorising him to receive contributions for the Fund.

All contributions to the Fund shall be paid to the Board either —

All payments of contributions to the Fund shall be accompanied by the forms issued by the Board for this purpose which shall be duly completed by the person making the payments or by such other forms as the Board may permit.

The Board shall issue a receipt for the amount of contributions to the Fund received from every employer.

Every employer shall as soon as he engages a Muslim employee forthwith obtain from the Board such forms as the Board may issue for the collection and payment of contributions to the Fund and the employer shall each month complete the forms in accordance with the instructions of the Board and forward the forms with his payment for the contributions to the Fund at the same time as payment is made for contributions to the Central Provident Fund.

If in any month a contribution to the Fund is not paid by an employee, the employer shall enter on the form in the space provided for recording the contribution payable for that month the reason for non-payment.

Where a Muslim employee is employed by two or more employers concurrently, the Majlis shall on the application of the employee exempt all except one of his employers from making contributions to the Fund.

Every employer shall retain all receipts issued by the Board for a period of two years from the date of issue and shall, during that period, make them available for inspection by any officer authorised by the Majlis.

Every Muslim employee shall furnish to his employer all such information and produce all such documents as may be necessary for the completion of such forms or returns as are required to be made by his employer under these Rules.

Any Muslim employee who desires to contribute in excess of the appropriate rate set out in the Third Schedule to the Act may do so by —

If, in the opinion of the Board, any document required to be completed by an employer under these Rules is incomplete or inaccurate or insufficiently legible, the Board may return the documents to the employer who shall, as the Board may require, either forthwith obtain, complete and forward to the Board, within one week of the date of return to him of the document, a fresh document in place thereof or correct and return the original document within one week.

When the Majlis is satisfied that any amount has been paid in error to the Fund, the Majlis may refund the amount so paid in error to the person by whom it was paid: Provided that —

For the purpose of receiving contributions from any self-employed Muslim persons and other Muslim persons to the Fund, the Majlis may adopt such system of collection as may be approved by the Minister.

The Majlis shall appoint collectors for the Fund.

A tauliah shall be issued to each collector for identification purposes in such form as may be approved by the Majlis.

The Majlis shall maintain a register of collectors in such form as may be approved by the Minister.

The collector shall issue a receipt for each contribution and such receipts shall be those issued by the Majlis.

All collectors shall remit to the Majlis the contributions received within the time stipulated by the Majlis together with the counterfoils of receipts.

No collector shall deduct any amount from the collections made by him.

It shall be the duty of the Majlis to maintain records of all contributions received for the Fund.