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Rules made by the Lord Chancellor under section fifteen of the Justices of the Peace Act, 1949, may make provision for securing that where proceedings are begun against a defendant residing in Scotland or Northern Ireland in a court having jurisdiction by virtue of subsection (1) of section one of this Act, not being a court having jurisdiction in the place where the parties last ordinarily resided together as man and wife, the proceedings may be removed upon the application of the defendant into a court of summary jurisdiction having jurisdiction in that place.
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