Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973

15 Extension of Recognition Act to Northern Ireland

(1) The [1971 c. 53.] Recognition of Divorces and Legal Separations Act 1971 (as amended by this Act) shall extend to Northern Ireland.

(2) In section 1 of that Act (recognition of divorces etc. as between territories forming part of the British Isles) the following shall be substituted for paragraphs (a) and (b)—

“if it was granted under the law of any part of the British Isles, be recognised throughout the United Kingdom ; and in each of sections 2, 7 and 8 of that Act for " Great Britain " there shall be substituted " the United Kingdom "”

(3) In so far as section 1 of that Act operates as part of the law of Northern Ireland, it shall do so only in relation to a decree of divorce or judicial separation granted after the coming into force of this section; and as respects the recognition in Northern Ireland of any such divorce or separation as is referred to in section 10(4) of the Act (transitional provisions) that subsection shall have effect as if any reference in it to the date of the commencement of the provisions of the Act there referred to were a reference to the date of the coming into force of this section.

(4) This section shall be deemed for the purposes of section 6 of the [1920 c. 67.] Government of Ireland Act 1920 to have been passed before the day referred to in that section as the appointed day.