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Jurisdiction


Section 35 (1) and (2)

Jurisdiction

35. —(1) The Court shall have jurisdiction throughout Singapore.

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(2) The Court shall have jurisdiction to 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 —

(a) marriage;
(b) divorces known in the Muslim law as fasakh, cerai taklik, khuluk and talak;
(c) betrothal, nullity of marriage or judicial separation;
(d) the disposition or division of property on divorce or nullification of marriage; or
(e) the payment of emas kahwin, marriage expenses (hantaran belanja), maintenance and consolatory gifts or mutaah.