KUALA LUMPUR: The Terengganu government will examine all aspects of the state's syariah law after the Federal Court ruled that 16 out of the 18 provisions under the Kelantan syariah criminal enactment were unconstitutional.
Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Dr Ahmad Samsuri Mokhtar said this was to ensure that the state's syariah law did not contradict federal law.
"The state government will take appropriate action if any party wishes to challenge the state's syariah criminal code enactment," he said as quoted by a Malay daily.
On Friday, the Federal Court, in an 8-1 majority decision, ruled that 16 provisions of offences under the Kelantan Syariah Criminal Code Enactment (1) 2019, were null and void, on the grounds that the State Legislature did not have the power to enact laws on said offences, because there are federal laws covering the same.
Chief Justice Tun Tengku Maimun Tuan Mat, who led the nine-member bench, delivered the judgment.
New Straits Times has reached out to Samsuri for further comment.