ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1983 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1983
PART III - MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION
Section 24. Registration of foreign marriage by a person domiciled in the state.
(1) Where any person who is domiciled or is temporarily resident in the State has contracted a marriage outside Malaysia according to Hukum Syarak and such marriage not being a marriage under section 115 or registered under section 20, such person shall within one month after the date of such marriage appear before the nearest Registrar of Muslim Marriages in the State or the Registrar of Marriages at the Malaysian Embassy in that country or nearest to that country in order to register such marriage and such marriage, when so registered, shall be deemed to be registered under the provisions of this Enactment unless before the expiry of such period the return of either or both parties to the State is contemplated, in which case, should the marriage not have been so registered abroad, registration of the marriage contracted abroad shall be effected, within one month of the first arrival of either or both the parties in the State, by such party or both appearing before any Registrar in the State and-
(a) producing to such Registrar the certificate of such marriage or such evidence either oral or documentary as may satisfy the Registrar that such marriage took place;
(b) furnishing such particulars as may be required by the Registrar for the due registration of such marriage; and
(c) applying in the prescribed form for the registration of the marriage to be effected and subscribing the declaration therein.
(2) A Registrar may dispense with the appearance of one of the parties to the marriage if he is satisfied that there exists good and sufficient reason for the absence of such party and in such case the entry in the Register of Marriages shall include a statement of the reason for his or her absence.
(3) Upon the registration of any marriage under the provisions of this section a certified copy of the entry in the register signed by the Registrar shall be delivered or sent to the husband and another copy to the wife and a copy shall be sent, within such period as may be prescribed, to the Chief Registrar of Marriages who shall cause such certified copies to be bound together to constitute the foreign marriages register.
(4) Where the parties to a marriage required to be registered under this section have not appeared before a Registrar within the period prescribed in subsection (1), it shall be the responsibility of both parties to the marriage to apply to a Qadhi to register the marriage and the Qadhi may, upon such application register such marriage on payment of such penalty as may be prescribed.