Original Enactment


MALACCA

ENACTMENT NO. 4 OF 2005
MUSLIM WILLS (STATE OF MALACCA) ENACTMENT 2005

Date of Royal Assent :20 April 2005
Date of publication in the Gazette :28 April 2005
Date of coming into operation :1 August 2005 [M.P.U. 37/05]
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS
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Preamble

PART I - PRELIMINARY

Section 1. Short title, commencement and application.
Section 2. Interpretation.

PART II - EXECUTION OF WILL

Section 3. Will may be made orally, in writing or by gesture.
Section 4. Proof of will.
Section 5. Conditional will.
Section 6. Competency of testator.
Section 7. Conditions of beneficiary.
Section 8. Bequest to places of worship or other institutions.
Section 9. Subject matter of will.
Section 10. Bequest on benefit.
Section 11. Mode of will.

PART III - INVALIDATION OF WILL

Section 12. Invalidation of will.
Section 13. A will of a person prohibited to administer his property.
Section 14. Beneficiary who has caused the death of testator is not entitled to the will.

PART IV - REVOCATION OF WILL

Section 15. Revocation of will.
Section 16. Acts not deemed to be revocation of will.

PART V - ACCEPTANCE AND REJECTION OF WILL

Section 17. Acceptance and rejection of will.
Section 18. Time to accept or reject will.
Section 19. Acceptance of part of will.
Section 20. Rejection of will before or after the death of the testator.
Section 21. Acceptance of the bequested property.

PART VI - PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE BENEFICIARY

Section 22. Bequest to non-existing beneficiary.
Section 23. Bequest to certain persons.
Section 24. Bequest to a particular unborn child.
Section 25. Bequest to two or more unborn children, etc.

PART VII - PROVISIONS RELATING TO TESTAMENTARY DISPOSITION

Section 26. Bequest to heirs and non-heirs.

PART VIII - OBLIGATORY WILL

Section 27. Bequest to grandchildren.

PART IX - GENERAL

Section 28. Hukum Syarak.
Section 29. Power to make rules.

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