Matrimonial Causes (Amendment) Act 1943 (NSW)

MATRIMONIAL CAUSES (AMENDMENT)

ACT.

Act No. 9, 1943.

An Act to validate certain marriages; to amend the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1899, and cer- tain other Acts in certain respects; and for purposes connected therewith. [As- sented to, 31st May, 1943.]

BE it enacted by the King's Most Excellent Majesty, lative Council and Legislative Assembly of New South by and with the advice and consent of the Legis-	Wales in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same, as follows :—
1 . This Act may be cited as the "Matrimonial Causes (Amendment) Act, 1943," and shall be read and con- strued with the Matrimonial Causes Act, 1899, as amended by subsequent Acts.
2 . No marriage celebrated in New South Wales be- fore the commencement of this Act shall be deemed or declared invalid or be deemed ever to have been invalid by reason only of the fact that the marriage was cele- brated after the making of a decree absolute in divorce proceeding's in which either party to the marriage was petitioner or respondent, and before the expiration of the time limited for appealing against that decree
absolute.

3 . The Matrimonial Causes Act, 1899, as amended by subsequent Acts, is amended by omitting from sub- section one of section eighty-two the word "four teen" and by inserting in lieu thereof the word "twenty-one."