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Matrimonial Causes Act 1973

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6(1)In section 2 of the [1967 c. 56.] Matrimonial Causes Act 1967 (jurisdiction of divorce county court with respect to ancillary relief and the protection of children)—

(a)in subsection (1), for the words " Part II or Part III of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 " there shall be substituted the words " Part II or Part III of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ", and for the words " section 22 or section 24 of that Act" in the subsection as originally enacted there shall be substituted the words " section 27 or 35 of that Act " (in place of the words substituted for the words originally enacted by paragraph 2(1)(a) of Schedule 2 to the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970);

(b)for subsection (3) as originally enacted there shall be substituted the following subsection (in place of that substituted by paragraph 2(1)(b) of Schedule 2 to the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970) :—

“(3)A divorce county court shall not by virtue of this section have jurisdiction to exercise any power under section 32, 33, 36 or 38 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ; but nothing in this section shall prejudice the exercise by a county court of any jurisdiction conferred on county courts by any of those sections”; and

(c)in subsection (4) as originally enacted, for the words from " section 24 " to the end of the subsection there shall be substituted the words " section 35 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 " (in place of the words substituted for the words originally enacted by paragraph 2(1)(c) of Schedule 2 to the Matrimonial Proceedings and Property Act 1970).

(2)In section 3 of that Act (consideration of agreements or arrangements by divorce county courts) for the words " section 5(2) of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 " there shall be substituted the words " section 7 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ".

(3)In section 10 of that Act (interpretation), in the definition of " matrimonial cause " in subsection (1), for the words from " section 2 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965 " to " that Act" there shall be substituted the words " section 3 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 ".

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