Divorce Act Amendment Act 1929 (WA)

1929.] Divorce. [No. 7.

DIVORCE.

20° ('Aso. V., No. V.

No. 7 of 1929.

AN ACT to amend Section one of the Act 34 Victoria

No. 7 relating to Divorce and Matrimonial Causes,

and Section six of the Divorce Amendment Act, 1911.

(Assented to 7th October, 1929.]

Council and Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, inBE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, byand with the advice and consent of the Legislative

this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of

the same, as follows:-

1.    This Act may be cited as the Divorce Act Amendment Short title.

Act, 1929.

2. Section one of the Act 34 Victorke No. 7 is hereby Amendment of s. 1 of 34 vie.,

amended by substituting for the word "revise" in the eighth	N	o.	7.
line thereof the word "revive," and by adding to the sec- tion a paragraph as follows :—

"Where the court has made any such order as is men- See 7 Ed. V/1.,

tioned in this section and the court is satisfied that the

o. 12, s. L (Imp ).

means of the husband have increased, the court may,

it thinks fit, increase the amount payable under the

order."

Section six of the Divorce Amendment Act, 1911, is hereby amended by inserting after the words "foreign	Amendment of s. 0 of No. 7 of
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domicile" the words "and for the purposes of this Act a deserted wife's husband, who was domiciled in Western Aus- tralia at the time of the desertion, shall be deemed to have retained his Western Australian domicile notwithstanding that such husband may have acquired a foreign domicile since the desertion."
The said section shall have effect as hereby amended From the commencement thereof.

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