Section 3 Married woman entitled to prior estate to be protector of settlement alone.

Where a married woman would, if single, be the protector of a settlement in respect of a prior estate, . . . F1 then she alone shall, in respect of that estate, be the protector of the settlement.

This section applies to disentailing assurances and surrenders made after the thirty-first day of December one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, and as well before as after the commencement of this Act.