Bandar Seri Begawan - The Attorney General Chambers (AGC) will be introducing an amendment to the Married Women Act called "protection order" with "very extensive coverage" to better defend victims of domestic violence.

Discussions are being conducted with the Syariah Court to make a similar amendment to the Islamic Family Law, AGC senior counsel officer Zuraini Hj Sharbawi has told The Brunei Times.

"The Married Women Act applies only to non-Muslims that is why the same provisions will also appear in the Islamic Family Law," said Zuraini, stressing the legislation was still in the stage of being finalised and that "it is not yet gazetted".