ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1983 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1983
PART VI - HADHANAH OR CUSTODY OF CHILDREN
Section 92. Guardianship of Infants Act 1961, shall not apply if contrary to Islamic religion.
(1) Nothing contained in the Guardianship of Act 1961 which is contrary to the Islamic religion or the custom of the Malays shall apply to any person under the age of eighteen years who professes the Islamic religion and whose father professes or at the time of his death professed the Islamic religion or in the case of an illegitimate child, whose mother so professes or at the time of her death professed the Islamic religion.
(2) In the case of any other person, the provisions of the said Act, so far as they are contrary to the Hukum Syarak shall cease to apply to such person upon his professing the Islamic religion, if at the date of such professing he has completed the age of eighteen years or, if not completed such age, he professes the Islamic religion with the consent of the person who under that Act is the guardian of the person of the infant.