Section 116. Marriage of janda. (ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW

ENACTMENT No. 1 Of 1959
ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW

PART VI - MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE

Section 116. Marriage of janda.

Where the woman to be wedded is a janda-

(a)

she shall not be married to any person other than the husband from whom she was last divorced, at any time prior to the expiration of the period of eddah, which shall be calculated in accordance with Muslim law;

(b)

she shall not be married unless she shall previously have produced:

(i) a certificate of the death of her late husband; or

(ii) a certificate of I divorce,lawfully issued under the law for the time being in force; or

(iii) a certified copy of the entry relating to such divorce in the appropriate register of divorces; or

(iv) a certificate, which may upon her application be granted after due enquiry by the Court of a Kathi having jurisdiction in the place where she resides, to the effect that she is a janda;

(c)

if the divorce was by three talak, she shall not be remarried to her previous husband, unless prior to such marriage she shall have been lawfully married to some other person and such marriage shall have been consummated and later lawfully dissolved.