Section 12
of Native Courts Native Customary Laws Rules 1995
State Subsidiary LegislationIn forceProvision 12 of 58
Section 12
(1)
Any man who marries a woman who is a relation through a prohibited degree of consanguinity commits a breach of native customary law of pitas and shall be liable -
(i)
to pay to the parent of the woman sogit of 1 head of livestock or other things of equivalent value in accordance with adat fine; or
(ii)
in default thereof -
(a)
to a fine not exceeding 1000 ringgit; or
(b)
to an imprisonment for a term not exceeding 1 month; or
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(c)
to both fine and imprisonment.
(2)
In this rule, a person is deemed to be a relation through a prohibited degree of consanguinity if that person falls within such propinquity as described and listed in Schedule
II.
Termination of betrothal.