ENACTMENT NO 6 OF 1993 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW (STATE OF PENANG) (AMENDMENT) ENCTMENT 1993
Section 17. New section 53
The principal Enactment is amended by substituting for section 53 the following new section 53:
53. "Divorceon presumption of death
(1) If a husband is believed to have died, or has not been heard of for a period of four years or more, and the circumstances are such that according to Hukum Syara' he ought, to be presumed to have died, for the purpose of enabling his wife to remarry, the court may on her application and after due investigation, issue in a prescribed form a certificate presuming that he is dead.
(2) A certificate issued under subsection (1) shall be registered as if it was a certificate of divorce.
(3) If she remarries and later the husband who was presumed dead returns or is found or proved to be still alive then her remarriage shall be null and void, and she shall return to her former husband after the expiry of the period of iddah.".