Law Reform Marriage And Divorce Act Amendment 2018
The law reform marriage and divorce amendment act 2017 came into force on 15 december 2018.
Law reform marriage and divorce act amendment 2018. The act makes no provision for regulations. Matrimonial causes jurisdiction act 22 of 1939 as amended in south africa to november 1979. An act to amend the law relating to the definition of marriage and protect religious freedoms and for related purposes assented to 8 december 2017 the parliament of australia enacts. This act may be cited as the law reform marriage and divorce act 1976 and shall come into force on such date as the yang di pertuan agong may by notification in the gazette appoint and different dates may be appointed for peninsular malaysia sabah and sarawak.
According to the malaysian statistics department the divorce rate for non muslim males aged 18 and above was 6 5 per cent in 2017. 1 short title this act is the marriage amendment definition and religious freedoms act 2017. Family law practitioner goh siu lin said the law reform marriage and divorce amendment act which came into force on dec 15 made it clear that any marriage contracted under civil law must be. Divorce is becoming increasingly common and the recent amendments to the law reform marriage divorce act 1976 the act.
5 where the marriage under the law of a place other than the state of two persons of the same sex is recognised and the two persons concerned live apart from one another the period or periods during which they live apart from one another shall for the purposes of the judicial separation and family law reform act 1989 the family law divorce act 1996 or any other enactment be calculated. Act a1546 act a1546 the law reform marriage and divorce amendment act 2017 came into effect on 15 12 2018 this amends the law reform marriage and divorce act 1976 act 164 see the amendment act here. 31 thus as regards the entitlement of a non member spouse under section 7 7 a and section 7 8 a of the divorce act 70 of 1979 the pension interest of the member spouse of parties married in community of property as at date of divorce is by operation of law part of the joint estate for the purpose of determining the parties patrimonial benefits and no order is required in terms of section. 1 in this act unless the context otherwise requires.
By christine toh and eric toh. The law reform marriage divorce amendment act 2017 comes into operation on 15 12 2018 bringing amendments to the law reform marriage divorce act 1976 which had over the decades caused many controversy in different aspects of the matrimonial law in malaysia. Marriage and divorce 1 marriage and divorce divorce laws amendment ordinance 18 of 1935. The main amendments made to the law reform marriage and divorce act 1976 principal act are as follows.