Making decree f-n. 1 w e * ,o o 1898, No. 42, sec 8-

Liberty to party to marry again. 1867, No. 94, sec. 29 1898, No. 42, sec. io Power to grant relief to respondent. ibid, sec 11 Action for criminal c Zul s :t n 1867, No. 94, sec 31

1898, No. 42, sec. 10

Power to grant relief to respondent. Ibid, sec. 11

Action for criminal conversation abolished. 1867, No. 94, seo. 31

General of any matter material to the due decision of the case, and the Attorney-General or the Solicitor-General may thereupon take such steps as he may deem necessary or expedient; and if from any such information or otherwise the Attorney-General or SolicitorGeneral suspects that any parties to the suit are or have been acting 5 in collusion for the purpose of obtaining a divorce contrary to the justice of the case, he may by leave of the Court intervene in the suit, alleging such collusion, and subpoena witnesses to prove it; and it shall be lawful for the Court to order the costs arising from such intervention to be paid by the parties, or such of them as it shall see 10 fit including a wife if she have separate property. 39. On every decree nisi in any suit or other proceeding for dissolution of marriage after the coming- into operation of this Act, . —. . .°, . , °. , , " . . :ne Registrar shall indorse a notice that it the petitioner or respondent shall contract marriage before such decree shall be made abso- 35 lute he or she will be guilty of bigamy; but it shall not be necessary for the petitioner to move to make absolute any decree nisi hereafter pronounced. After the expiration of the time limited in that behalf the Registrar, on the request in writing of the petitioner, and if no matter in opposition to the final decree is then pending, may issue the 20 decree absolute as of course. If for the period of one month after the expiration of the time so limited as aforesaid the petitioner neglect or fail to so apply, then the Registrar, on the request in writing of the respondent, and after the respondent shall have given to the petitioner three days' notice, or such substituted notice as the 25 Court may allow, and if no matter in opposition to the final decree is then pending, may issue the decree absolute as of course, and the Court shall have the same powers as it would have if the application were made by the petitioner. 40. (I.) When the time limited for appealing against any decree 30 dissolving a marriage shall have expired, and no appeal shall have een p rese nted against such decree, or when any such appeal shall have been dismissed, or when in the result of any appeal any marriage shall be declared to be dissolved, but not sooner, it shall be lawful for the respective parties thereto to marry again as if the 35 prior marriage had been dissolved by death. (2.) In cases where under this Act there shall be no right of appeal, the parties respectively shall be at liberty to marry again at any time after the pronouncing or issue of the decree absolute. 41 i n an y sn {i or other proceeding instituted for dissolution of 40 . .»-.., ,i ~, . ° i,in .-, marriage or judicial separation, it the respondent shall oppose the relief sought on the ground of any cause entitling either husband or wife to any relief under this Act, the Court may in such a suit give to the respondent, on his or her application, the same relief to which he or she would have been entitled in case he or she had filed a peti- 45 tion seeking such relief. PART 111. Remedies against Adulterer. 42. No action for criminal conversation shall be commenced in New Zealand. 50

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