Section 5

Every person who on the appointed date is lawfully married under any law, religion, custom or usage to one or more spouses and who subsequently ceases to be married to such spouse or all such spouses, shall, if he thereafter marries again, be incapable during the continuance of that marriage of contracting a valid marriage with any other person under any law, religion, custom or usage, whether the second mentioned marriage or purported third mentioned marriage is contracted within Malaysia or outside Malaysia.

Every person who on the appointed date is unmarried and who after that date marries under any law, religion, custom or usage shall be incapable during the continuance of such marriage of contracting a valid marriage with any other person under any law, religion, custom

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or usage, whether the first mentioned marriage or the purported second mentioned marriage is contracted within Malaysia or outside Malaysia.

After the appointed date, no marriage under any law, religion, custom or usage may be solemnized except as provided in Part III.

Avoidance of marriage by subsisting prior marriage