Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 · Updated to 15 Dec 2018 · Part VIII · Protection of Children
89. Orders subject to conditions
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The court may attach conditions to a custody order. Subject to those conditions, the person with custody decides on the child's upbringing and education. Conditions may cover the child's home, education and religious upbringing. An order may give a parent without custody, and certain relatives, time with the child. It may also forbid taking the child out of Malaysia.
Summary · Drafted with AI, checked against the official text on 30 Sep 2026.
An order for custody may be made subject to such conditions as the court may think fit to impose, and subject to such conditions, if any, as may from time to time apply, shall entitle the person given custody to decide all questions relating to the upbringing and education of the child.
court
“court” means the High Court or a Judge thereof or, where a Sessions Court Judge has jurisdiction by virtue of subsection (2), the Sessions Court or a Sessions Court Judge of that Court;
Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), an order for custody may—
contain conditions as to the place where the child is to reside, as to the manner of his or her education and as to the religion in which he or she is to be brought up;
provide for the child to be temporarily in the care and control of some person other than the person given custody;
provide for the child to visit a parent deprived of custody or any member of the family of a parent who is dead or has been deprived of custody at such times and for such periods as the court may consider reasonable;
give a parent deprived of custody or any member of the family of a parent who is dead or has been deprived of custody the right of access to the child at such times and
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with such frequency as the court may consider reasonable;
or
prohibit the person given custody from taking the child out of Malaysia.