Section 54

Every Registrar and the Chief Registrar shall each maintain a

Register of Divorces, Annulments and Ruju’ in the prescribed form and shall forthwith enter therein the prescribed particulars of all orders of divorce and annulment delivered to him under subsection (2) and applications for registration of all orders of divorce and annulment under subsection (3).

Every Court that grants and records an order of divorce or annulment, or permits and records any talaq or any other form of divorce, shall forthwith deliver a certified copy of the record to both the relevant

Registrar and the Chief Registrar for registration.

Where a marriage that is solemnised in Brunei Darussalam is dissolved or annulled by an order of a Court of competent jurisdiction outside Brunei Darussalam, either of the parties may apply in the prescribed form to the relevant Registrar for registration of the order, and the relevant

Registrar and the Chief Registrar, on being satisfied that the order is one

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that should be recognised as valid for the purposes of the law in Brunei

Darussalam, shall register the order.

Where a pronouncement of talaq before the Court or an order of divorce or annulment, wherever granted, has dissolved a marriage that was solemnised in Brunei Darussalam and has been registered under this Act or any written law in force before this Act, the relevant Registrar and the Chief

Registrar shall, on registering the talaq or order, cause the entry relating to that marriage in the Marriage Register to be marked with the word

“Dibubarkan (Dissolved)” and a reference to the proceedings in which the talaq was pronounced or the order was made.

Upon registering the talaq or order of divorce and on payment of the prescribed fee, the Registrar shall issue a Divorce Certificate in the prescribed form to both parties.

Upon registering an order of annulment, the Registrar shall issue a letter of annulment to both parties.

Registration of divorces outside Court.