JUDGMENT

Mohd Hishamudin bin Mohd Yunus JC:

In this application, the applicant/petitioner applied to this Court for an interlocutory injunction to restrain the respondent, his servants, or agents from disposing of his Employees Provident Fund and gratuity payments until final disposal of her application for ancillary relief under the divorce petition. This application was pursuant to s. 102 of the Law Reform (Marriage and Divorce) Act 1976 which reads:

Power of Court to set aside and prevent dispositions intended to defeat claims to maintenance.

102. (1) Where -

(a) any matrimonial proceeding is pending, ...

...

the Court shall have power on application -

(i) if it is satisfied that any disposition of properly has been made by the spouse or former spouse or parent of the person by or on whose behalf the application is made, within the preceding three years, with the object on the part of the person making the disposition of reducing his or her means to pay maintenance or of depriving his or her spouse of any rights in relation to that property, to set aside the disposition; and

(ii) if it is satisfied that any disposition of property is intended to be made with any such obje