ENACTMENT A19 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW (AMENDMENT) ENACTMENT 2008
Section 3. New sections 19 and 20.
The principal Enactment is amended in the English language text by inserting section 18, the following sections:
“Permission necessary before solemnization
19. No marriage shall be solemnized unless permission to marry has been given—
(a) by the Registrar under section 17 or by the Syarie Judge under section 18, where the marriage involves a woman resident in the State of Perlis; or
(b) by the proper authority of a State, where the marriage involves a woman resident in that State.
Place of marriage
20. (1) No marriage shall be solemnized except in the kariah masjid in which the woman is resident, but the Registrar or Syarie Judge giving permission to marry under section 17 or 18 may give permission for the marriage to be solemnized elsewhere, whether in the State of Perlis or in any State.
(2) A permission under subsection (1) may be expressed in the permission to marry given under section 17 or 18.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (1), a marriage may be solemnized in a kariah masjid other than that in which woman is resident if—
(a) in a case where the woman resides in the State of Perlis, a permission to marry for that marriage has been given under section 17 or 18 and the permission for the solemnization of the marriage in another kariah masjid has been given under subsection (1); or
(b) in a case where the woman resides in a State, a permission to marry for that marriage and a permission for the marriage to be solemnized in another kariah masjid have been given by the proper authority of that State.”