Section 7: Life interests and limited estates
consolidated text (as at 1992). juris shows the text as it was consolidated; it does not confirm that this is the law in force today.
7. Life interests and limited estates
(1) Subject to subsection (3), provision may validly be made in a declaration of waqf for the benefit of a succession of persons, during their lives, or
during specified periods and notwithstanding that, at the time of the declaration of waqf, those persons are not in being.
(2) Subject to subsection (3), provision may in particular be made, in a
declaration of waqf, for the maintenance and support of the family, children,
or descendants of the waqif and, where the person creating a waqf is a
Hanafi Muslim, also for the maintenance and support of the waqif during his
lifetime, or for the payment of his debts out of the rents and profits of the
property dedicated.
(3) The ultimate benefit shall in such cases be expressly or impliedly reserved for the poor or for any other purpose recognised by Muslim law as a
religious, pious or charitable purpose of a permanent character.
(4) The share provided by the waqif for the benefit of any of his male
children or descendants may be double the share provided by him for the
benefit of any of his female children or descendants respectively.