# Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978, Paragraph 20


Article 20(2) shall not apply in a case where the death occurred before the commencement of this Order but section 15 of the Act of 1939 (which provides that certain property of a wife judicially separated from her husband shall devolve, on her death intestate, as if her husband had then been dead) shall continue to apply in any such case.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/nisi/1978/1045/schedule/3/paragraph/20 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/matrimonial-causes-northern-ireland-order-1978/schedule-3/paragraph-20
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