ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 1955 ADMINISTRATION OF MUSLIM LAW ENACTMENT 1955
PART VII - MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE
Section 100. Marriage of Janda.
Where the bride is a janda-
(a) she shall not be married to any person, other than, subject to clause (d) of this section, to the husband from whom she was last divorced, at any time prior to the expiration of the period of eddah, which shall be calculated in accordance with Muslim Law,
(b) she shall not be married unless she shall previously have produced-
(i) a certificate of the death of her late husband, or
(ii) a certificate of divorce lawfully issued under the law for the time being in force, or
(iii) a certified copy of the entry relating to such divorce in the appropriate register of divorce, or
(iv) a certificate, which may upon her application be granted after due enquiry by the Court of a Kathi having jurisdiction in the place where she resides, to the effect that she is a janda,
(c) if the bride was divorced before the marriage had been consummated, she shall not be married to any person other than her previous husband during the period of eddah which would otherwise have been applicable; unless with the permission of the Kathi having jurisdiction in the place where she resides,
(d) if the divorce was by three talak, she shall not be remarried to her previous husband, unless prior to such marriage she shall have been lawfully married to some other person and such marriage shall have been consummate and later lawfully dissolved.