LAW OF DIVORCE
Matrimonial Causes Bill
SEPARATION BY COURTS
The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Amendment Bill, sponsored by Mr. H. G. R. Mason (Lab., Auckland Suburbs), has been examined by the Statutes Revision Committee, which recommended the House yesterday to allow the Bill to proceed subject to one amendment. One of the objects of Mr. Mason’s Bill was to allow separation by courts outside New Zealand as a ground for divorce proceedings. The committee has allowed that to stand, but has taken advantage of the opportunity to deal with another ground of divorce.
If the respondent is a person of unsound mind and has been confined in a mental institution for an aggregate of seven years within the period of ten years immediately preceding the filing of the petition, that is a ground for divorce. The committee’s amendment restricts the aggregate of seven years to four years.
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Dominion, Volume 23, Issue 256, 25 July 1930, Page 10
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