Married Women Act 1957.

This Act, consisting of 16 sections, applies to the States of Peninsular Malaysia and makes provision in matter of land family ownership as follows: Section 3: The Act contains provisions relating to “Muslim married women and their property, rights and obligations subject to the Islamic law and the customs of the Malays governing the relations between husband and wife”. Section 4: A married woman is capable of: i. acquiring, holding and disposing of, any property; ii. suing and being sued in her own name; iii. rendering herself and being rendered liable in respect of any tort, contract, debtor obligation; iv. and being subject to the law relating to bankruptcy and to the enforcement of judgments and orders, as she “were a feme sole”. Section 5: All property owned by a woman shall belong to her in all respects as if she were a feme sole and may be disposed of accordingly if i. it was acquired immediately before the date of the coming into force of the Act or held for her separate use in equity; or ii. it belongs at the time of her marriage to a woman married after the date of the coming into force of this Act; or iii. if after the date of the coming into force of this Act is acquired by or devolves upon a married woman, Section 9: A married woman can have protection and redress over her property against her own husband (17).