ENACTMENT A19 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW (AMENDMENT) ENACTMENT 2008
Section 2. Amendment of section 18.
The Islamic Family Law Enactment 2006 [Enactment 7], which is referred to as the “principal Enactment” in this Enactment, is amended in the English language text, in section 18, by inserting after subsection (1) the following subsection:
“(2) The Syarie Judge, on being satisfied of the truth of the matters stated in the application and the legality of the intended marriage and that the case is one that merits the giving of permission for the purposes of section 8, or permission for the purposes of subsection 14(3), or of his consent to the marriage being solemnized by wali raja for the purposes of paragraph 13(b), as the case may be, shall, at any time after reference of the application to him and upon payment of the prescribed fee, issue to the applicant his permission to marry in the prescribed form.”