The Family Law Act 1996 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1997

4.  Until such time as Part II of the Family Law Act 1996 is brought into force, paragraphs 2(2), 7(3), (4) and (6), 12 and 13(1) of Schedule 7 to that Act shall be modified as follows:—

(a) for paragraph 2(2) there shall be substituted the following:

“(2) On granting a decree of divorce, a decree of nullity of marriage or a decree of judicial separation or at any time thereafter (whether, in the case of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage, before or after the decree is made absolute), the court may make a Part II order.”:

(b) in paragraph 7(3) and (4) the words “(or, in the case of judicial separation, his spouse)” shall be substituted for the words “(or, if a separation order is in force, his spouse)”;

(c) paragraph 7(6) shall be omitted;

(d) in paragraph 12(1) the words “divorce or” shall be inserted after the words “decree of” and paragraph 12(2) shall be omitted; and

(e) in paragraph 13(1):

(i) the words “the making of a divorce order or” and “the making of that order or” shall be omitted, and

(ii) the words, “dissolving or” shall be inserted after the words “grant of a decree”.