Singapore legislation

Clause 4

of Women’s Charter (Amendment) Bill

Clause 4

Amendment of section 3

Section 3 of the Women’s Charter is amended by inserting, immediately after subsection (2), the following subsection:“(2A) Nothing in Part VIII entitles an incapacitated husband who is married under the provisions of the Muslim law, or of any written law in Singapore or in Malaysia providing for the registration of Muslim marriages, to obtain any maintenance under that Part.”.