ENACTMENT NO. 7 OF 1983 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW (NEGERI SEMBILAN) ENACTMENT 1983
PART II - MARRIAGE Preliminaries to a Marriage
Section 20. Place of marriage.
(1) No marriage shall be solemnized except in the kariah masjid in which the woman resides, but the Registrar or Syar'iah Judge giving permission to marry under section 17 or 18 may give permission for the marriage to be solemnized elsewhere, whether in Negeri Sembilan or in any State.
(2) A permission under subsection (1) may be expressed in the permission to marry given under section 17 or 18.
(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), a marriage may be solemnized in a kariah masjid other than that where the woman resides if-
(a) in a case where the woman resides in Negeri Sembilan, a permission for the marriage to be solemnized in that karaih masjid has been given under section 17 or 18 and the permission for the solemnization of the marriage in other kariah masjid has been given under subsection (1); or
(b) in a case where the woman resides in another State, a permission to marry and a permission for the marriage to be solemnized in other kariah masjid have been given by the proper authority of that State.