Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 · Updated to 15 Dec 2018 · Part II · Monogamous Marriages
7. Offence
Feedback & supportAny person lawfully married under any law, religion, custom or usage who during the continuance of such marriage purports to contract a marriage under any law, religion, custom or usage in contravention of section 5 shall be deemed to commit the offence of marrying again during the life-time of husband or wife, as the case may be, within the meaning of section 494 of the Penal Code [Act 574].
Where an offence under section 494 of the Penal Code is committed by virtue of subsection (1) by any person in any place outside Malaysia he may be dealt with in respect of that offence as if it had been committed at any place within Malaysia at which he may be found or to which he may have been brought in consequence of any proceeding for his extradition to Malaysia from any place outside
Malaysia:
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Provided that any proceeding against any person under this subsection which would be a bar to subsequent proceedings against him for the same offence if the offence had been committed in
Malaysia shall be a bar to further proceedings against him under the
*Extradition Ordinance 1958 [Ord. 2 of 1958] or the *Commonwealth
Fugitive Criminals Act 1967 [Act 54 of 1967] in respect of the same offence outside Malaysia.