ENACTMENT NO. 1 OF 1983 ISLAMIC FAMILY LAW ENACTMENT 1983
PART III - MARRIAGE AND REGISTRATION
Section 15. Marriage of a woman.
(1) No woman may, during the subsistence of a marriage, marry any other male person.
(2) If the woman is a janda-
(a) she shall not at any time prior to the termination of her period of edah which shall be calculated according to Hukum Syarak, be married to any person, other than and subject to paragraph (d) of this subsection, the husband from whom she was last divorced;
(b) she shall not be married unless she shall have produced-
(i) a certificate of divorce lawfully issued under the law for the time being in force; or
(ii) a certified copy of the entry relating to such divorce in the appropriate register of divorces; or
(iii) a certificate which may upon her application be granted after due inquiry by the Court of a Qadhi having jurisdiction in the place where the application is made, to the effect that she is a janda.
(c) if she was divorced before the marriage had been consummated, she shall not be married to any person other than her last husband during the period of edah unless with the permission of the Qadhi having jurisdiction in the place where she is domiciled;
(d) if the divorce was by three talak, she shall not be remarried to her last husband unless prior to such marriage she shall have been lawfully married to another person and such marriage shall have been consummated and latter lawfully divorced and after the period of edah.
(3) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 2, a woman who has married and has been divorced before consummation, shall be deemed to be a janda for the purposes of this section.
(4) If the woman is a balu she shall not be married to any person-
(a) at any time prior to the termination of her period of edah; and
(b) she shall not be married unless she has produced-
(i) a certificate of death of her husband; or
(ii) a declaration from the Court; or
(iii) a declaration from an authority recognised and confirmed by the Court.