Section 9
Section 9
(1)
No man or woman, as the case may be, shall, on the grounds of nasab, marry —
(a)
his mother or her father;
(b)
his grandmother or any of her ascendants whether on the side of his father or mother;
(c)
his daughter or her son and his granddaughter or her grandson and their descendants;
(d)
his sister or her brother of the same parents, his sister or her brother of the same father, and his sister or her brother of the same mother;
(e)
the daughter of his brother or sister, or the son of her brother or sister and the descendants of the brother or sister;
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(f)
his aunt or her uncle on the father’s side and their ascendants;
(g)
his aunt or her uncle on the mother’s side and their ascendants.
(2)
No man or woman, as the case may be, shall, on the grounds of affinity, marry —
(a)
his mother-in-law or her father-in-law and their ascendants;
(b)
his stepmother or her stepfather, being his father’s wife or her mother’s husband;
(c)
his stepgrandmother being the wife of his grandfather or her stepgrandfather being the husband of her grandmother, whether on the side of the father or the mother;
(d)
his daughter-in-law or her son-in-law;
(e)
his stepdaughter or her stepson and their descendants from the wives he has consummated.
(3)
No man or woman, as the case may be, shall marry any woman or any man connected with him or her through sesusuan where, if the relationship is through birth and not through sesusuan, the woman or man would still have been prohibited from marrying on the grounds of nasab or affinity.
(4)
No man shall have two wives at any one time if the wives are related to each other by nasab, affinity or sesusuan and where the relationship is of a type that if either of them had been a man rendering the marriage between them still void in accordance with Hukum Syara’.
Void marriages.