There are currently no known outstanding effects for the The Matrimonial and Family Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1989, Section 3.
3. For Article 5 of the principal Order (which provides that no petition for divorce shall be presented within three years of marriage unless the leave of the court has been obtained) there shall be substituted the following Article—
5.—(1) No petition for divorce shall be presented to the court before the expiration of the period of two years from the date of the marriage.
(2) Nothing in this Article shall prohibit the presentation of a petition based on matters which occurred before the expiration of that period.”.
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