THE MARRIAGE LAW.
A SETTLEMENT REACHED. (From Our Parliamentary Reporter.) Wellington, Last Night. There were two conferences between the Legislative Council and the House of Representatives with reference to the amendments made by the House in the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Amendment Bill. The first conference failed to reach an agreement, but the second conference arrived at the following agreement: To omit sub-clause 2 of clause 2, which prevented the amendment from becoming retrospective, and to substitute, two new clauses. The first would provide that nothing in the section should be deemed to apply to any decree absolute heretofore made by the Court. The second would be to the effect that no decree nisi heretofore made under section 4 should be made absolute except upon a motion before the Court, and if the respondent opposed the making of a decree absolute and it was proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the separation was due to the wrongful act of the petitioner, the Court in its discretion might refuse to make the decree absolute. This agreement was subsequently approved by both Houses.
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1922, Page 5
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183THE MARRIAGE LAW. Taranaki Daily News, 11 February 1922, Page 5
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