ENACTMENT NO. 13 OF 1984 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1984
PART V - DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE
Section 49. Fasakh.
A woman married in accordance with Hukum Syara' shall be entitled to obtain an order for the dissolution of her marriage by fasakh on anyone or more of the following grounds namely-
(a) that the husband was impotent and continues to be so for the period of one year after the complaint;
(b) that the husband was insane or is suffering from leprosy or vitilligo or from a virulent venereal disease, so long as there is no clear proof to show that she has accepted that fact;
(c) that the consent of the wife to the marriage was given in an unlawful manner whether in consequences of duress, mistake, unsoundness of mind or other reasons in accordance with Hukum Syara';
(d) that at the time of the marriage the husband was (whether continuously or intermittently) a mentally disordered person within the meaning of the Mental Disorders Ordinance 1952, of such a kind or to such an extent as to make him unfit for marriage ;
(e) on any other ground which is recognised as valid for the dissolution of marriages by fasakh in accordance with the Hukum Syara'.