ENACTMENT No. 1 Of 1984 ISLAMIC FAMILY ENACTMENT 1979
PART III - REGISTRATION OF MARRIAGE
Section 23. Registration of marriage solemnized outside the state by a domicil or a resident of the State.
(1) If a person domiciled or resident in this State validly contracts a marriage outside the State in accordance dance to Hukum Syarak and that marriage is not a marriage regIsterable under the provision of section 18, he shall within six months after the marriage attend section before the nearest Registrar appointed under section 20 (4) or before the Registrar who is most readily available in the foreign country to register his marriage and on registration it shall be deemed a marriage registered under this Enactment unless the Registrar is not available or if before the expiry of the six months one or both the parties of the marriage returns to this State without registering the marriage in that country any one or both the parties shall attend before any Registrar in this State-
(a) to produce before the Registrar a marriage certificate or any evidence oral or written to satisfy the Registrar that the marriage had been solemnized;
(b) to give any detail as required by the Registrar for the registration thereof; and
(c) to apply in the form provided for the registration of the marriage so solemnized.
(2) The Registrar may exempt the attendance of one of the parties to the marriage if he is satisfied that there are adequate and valid grounds that prevented him from
attending and in such circumstances in the District Register shall be entered a record the reason why the person is absent.
(3) Soon after the registration of the marriage is made under this section and on payment of the fees prescribed the Registrar shall-
(a) issue a Certificate in the form provided to both parties to the marriage; and
(b) forward a copy of the entry made in the District Register to the Chief Registrar who shall enter the entry in the Central Register.
(4) If the parties to the marriage required to be registered do not make an application for registration within the time prescribed by sub-section (1), the marriage may, on application to the Registrar and after payment of a penalty prescribed be registered.