ENACTMENT NO. 5 OF 1956 ADMINISTRATION OF THE LAW OF THE RELIGION OF ISLAM ENACTMENT 1956
PART VI - MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
Section 126. Resumption of conjugal relationship.
(1) In this section "revocable divorce" means a divorce by one or two talak not followed by such a lapse of time as to render it irrevocable.
(2) If after a revocable divorce recohabitation takes place, the parties or the husband and the representative of the wife from her family shall within fifteen days report the fact of such recohabitation and all relevant particulars to the Registrar of the locality in which they reside. The Registrar shall make such enquiry as may be necessary and, if satisfied that recohabitation has taken place in accordance with the Law of the Religion of Islam, shall, upon payment of the prescribed fees, register such recohabitation by endorsement upon the counterfoil of the certificate of the divorce, if such divorce was registered by him, and shall require the parties to deliver to him the relevant certificates of divorce and shall issue to them certificates of reeohabitation in the prescribed form.
(3) If the divorce was not registered by that Registrar, he shall record on the certificates of divorce the number and particulars of the certificates of recohabitation and shall forward the certificates of divorce to the Registrar by whom the same were issued, and such other Registrar shall thereupon register the recohabitation by endorsement as in sub-section (2).
(4) If a revocable divorce has taken place without the knowledge of the wife, the husband shall not require or request the wife to recohabit with him without disclosing to her the fact of such divorce.
(5) If after a revocable divorce the husband has pronounced a rojok, whether the wife has consented to the rojok or not, she may on the application of the husband be ordered by the Kathi to resume conjugal relations, unless she shall show good cause in accordance with the Law of the Religion of Islam to the contrary:
Provided the Kathi shall impose such conditions in accordance with the Law of Islam as he thinks appropriate.