Malaysia legislation

Section 5

of Maintenance Ordinance 1959

Section 5

If any person so ordered fails without sufficient cause to comply with any such order under this Ordinance, the Court may, for every breach of the order, by warrant, direct the amount due to be levied in the manner by law provided for levying fines imposed by a Court, and may sentence him to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month for each month's allowance remaining unpaid:

Provided that if any person against whom an order has been made for the maintenance of his wife offers to maintain his wife on condition of her living with him and his wife refuses to live with him, the Court may consider any grounds of refusal stated by such wife and may make or enforce the order aforesaid notwithstanding such offer if satisfied that such person is living in adultery, or that he has habitually treated his wife with cruelty.

Cases in which wife is not entitled to allowance.

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