ENACTMENT NO. 3 OF 1992
CRIMES (SYARIAH) ENACTMENT 1992

PART VI - OFFENCES RELATING TO DECENCY



Section 51. Illegal cohabitation.

(1) Anyone who commits illegal cohabitation is guilty of an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding three thousand ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years or to both.

(2) Nothing is an offence under subsection (1) for a man and a woman to live or stay together if allowed by
Hukum Syara' under special or pressing circumstances.
 





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