ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1983 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1983
PART IV - DIVORCE
Section 42. Maintenance of Register of Divorces.
(1) Every Registrar and the Chief Registrar shall maintain a Register of Divorces in Form 5C and shall forthwith enter in such register particulars of all orders of divorce and annulment of marriage which are sent to him under subsection (2) and all orders of divorce and annulment of marriage applied for registration under subsection (3).
(2) Every Court which makes and records an order of divorce or annulment of marriage or which approves and records a talak or any other form of divorce shall forthwith send a certified copy of the record to the Chief Registrar for registration.
(3) If a marriage solemnised in the State is dissolved or annulled by an order of a Court of competent jurisdiction outside the State, either of the parties may apply to the Chief Registrar concerned for the registration of the order and the Chief Registrar shall register the order if he is satisfied that the order should be recognised as valid for the purposes of the laws of the State.
(4) If the pronouncement of a talak before a Court or an order of divorce or annulment of marriage, wherever made, has dissolved a marriage which was solemnised in the State and has been registered under the provisions of this Enactment or any other written law at that time, the Registrar concerned or the Chief Registrar, shall when he registers the talak, direct that the entry in the Register of Marriages relating to the marriage be endorsed 'dissolved' and reference made fo the trial in which the talak was pronounced.
(5) On registering a talak or order of divorce or annulment of marriage and on payment of the prescribed fees, the Chief Registrar shall issue a Certificate of Divorce in the prescribed form to both parties.