ENACTMENT NO. 12 OF 1985 ADMINISTRATION OF ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1985
PART II - MARRIAGE
Section 8. Relationships prohibiting marriage.
(1) No man or woman, as the case may be, shall, on the ground of consanguinity, marry-
(a) his mother or father;
(b) his grandmother or her grandfather, whether on the side of the father or the mother, and his or her ascendants, how-high-soever;
(c) his daughter or her son and his granddaughter or her grandson and his or her descendants, how-low-soever;
(d) his sister or her brother of the same parents, his sister or her brother of the same father, and his sister or her brother of the same mother;
(e) the daughter of his brother or sister, or the son of her brother or sister, and the descendants, how-low-soever, of the brother or sister;
(f) his aunt or her uncle on the father's side and her or his ascendants;
(g) his aunt or her uncle on the mother's side and her or his ascendants.
(2) No man or woman, as the case may be, shall, on the ground of affinity, marry-
(a) his mother-in-law or her father-in-law and ascendants of his wife or her husband, howhigh- soever;
(b) his stepmother or her stepfather, being his father's wife or her mother's husband;
(c) his stepgrandmother or her stepgrandfather, being the wife of his grandfather or the husband of her grandmother, whether on the side of the father or the mother;
(d) his daughter-in-law or her son-in-law;
(e) his stepdaughter or her stepson and her or his descendants, how-law-soever.
(3) No man or woman, as the case may be, shall, on the ground of fosterage, marry any woman or any man connected with him or her through some act of suckling where, if it had been instead an act of procreation, the woman or man would have been within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity or affinity.
(4) No-man shall have two wives at any one time who are so related to each other by consanguinity, affinity, or fosterage that if either of them had been a male a marriage between them would have been illegal in Hukum Syara'.