ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1955 ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT 1955
PART VIII - MAINTENANCE OF DEPENDANTS
Section 120. Infirm and diseased person.
(1) Any person who is incapacitated by infirmity or disease from supporting himself may by application in the Court of a Kathi obtain an order against any person liable in accordance with Muslim law to support him for the payment from time to time of any such sums in respect of his maintenance as may be proper.
(2) Lack of means in the respondent shall be a sufficient defence to any such application