DIVORCE REFORM.
BRITISH BILL PASSED. OPERATIVE NEXT YEAR. Received July 24, 9.45 a.m. LONDON, July 23. The House of Commons without a division accepted the House of Lords amendments to the Matrimonial Causes Bill. The Bill will become operative on January 1, 1938.
EFFECT OF THE BILL
(British Official Wireless.) Received July 24, 11.55 a.m. RUGBY, July 23. The Matrimonial Causes Bill is now ready for the Royal assent. The effect will be to add to adultery, formerly the sole ground for divorce, the additional grounds of desertion, cruelty or incurable insanity. A feature of the Bill is that the first clause, which provides that no petition for divorce may be made within a given period after marriage, fixed orginally at five years was reduced by the House of Lords to three, and this was approved by the Lower House today, with discretion being given to the Courts to accept a petition sooner in cases of exceptional hardship or depravity. The Bill has been 18 months in its passage through Parliament and Mr A. P. Herbert and its other sponsors were to-day the recipients of many congratulations.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 9
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187DIVORCE REFORM. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 200, 24 July 1937, Page 9
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