# The Family Law Act 1996 (Commencement No. 2) Order 1997, 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”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1892/article/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-act-1996-commencement-no-2-order-1997/article-4
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