Article 4

Until such time as Part II of the Family Law Act 1996 is brought into force, paragraphs 2(2), 7(3), (4) and (6), 12 and 13(1) of Schedule 7 to that Act shall be modified as follows:—

(a)

for paragraph 2(2) there shall be substituted the following:

“(2)

On granting a decree of divorce, a decree of nullity of marriage or a decree of judicial separation or at any time thereafter (whether, in the case of a decree of divorce or nullity of marriage, before or after the decree is made absolute), the court may make a Part II order.”:

(b)

in paragraph 7(3) and (4) the words “(or, in the case of judicial separation, his spouse)” shall be substituted for the words “(or, if a separation order is in force, his spouse)”;

(c)

paragraph 7(6) shall be omitted;

(d)

in paragraph 12(1) the words “divorce or” shall be inserted after the words “decree of” and paragraph 12(2) shall be omitted; and

(e)

in paragraph 13(1):

(i)

the words “the making of a divorce order or” and “the making of that order or” shall be omitted, and

(ii)

the words, “dissolving or” shall be inserted after the words “grant of a decree”.