§ 47. Sir T. Mooreasked the Prime Minister whether he will include in his discussions with the Dominion Prime Ministers the advisability of altering our British law so as to permit a British woman married to a resident in the Dominions the right to retain her British nationality for purposes of divorce.
§ The Prime MinisterAs was stated by my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General, in reply to my hon. and gallant Friend on 4th May, the question is not one of nationality law but of the law of domicile. The present meeting of Prime Ministers would not afford a suitable opportunity for consideration of a question of this kind. The possibility of legislation on the lines of the Matrimonial Causes (Dominions Troops) Act, 1919, is now being taken up with the Dominion Governments.
§ Sir T. MooreWhile thanking my right hon. Friend very much for that answer, may I ask him whether he will bear in mind that lifelong misery is caused to many innocent British women through the law as it stands at present and that this war will naturally produce many more cases?