§ Read 3a (according to Order).
§ Clause 1:
§ Amendments of principal Act as to grounds on which orders may be made.
§ (3) Where any orders are made they shall not be enforceable whilst the married woman continues to reside with her husband.
§ THE LORD CHANCELLORmoved to leave out subsection (3) and insert:
(3) No order made under the principal Act shall be enforceable and no liability shall accrue under any such order whilst the married woman with respect to whom the order was made voluntarily resides with her husband.The noble and learned Viscount said: This and other Amendments that I wish to move at this stage are not more than drafting. I beg to move.
§ Amendment moved—
§ Page 1, lines 24 to 26, leave out subsection (3) and insert the said new subsection.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 2:
§ Amendment of s. 7 of principal Act.
§ (2) Section seven of the principal Act shall have effect as though the words "or any court in whose jurisdiction the married woman or husband shall reside" had been inserted.
§ Amendment moved—
§ Page 2, lines 26 and 29, leave out subsection (2).—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 4 (Notice of change of address):
§ Amendment moved—
§ Page 3, line 2, leave out ("if such payments are in arrear").—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
§ Clause 6:
§ Definition of principal Act.
§ 6. In this Act the expression "the principal Act" means the Summary Jurisdiction (Married Women) Act, 1895, as extended by section five of the Licensing Act, 1902, and by the Married Women (Maintenance) Act, 1920.
§ Amendment moved—
§ Page 3, line 17, leave out from ("as") to the end of line 19 and insert ("amended by any subsequent enactment").—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Amendment agreed to.
348§ THE LORD CHANCELLORMy Lords, I now move that the Bill so amended do pass.
§ Moved, That the Bill do now pass.—(The Lord Chancellor.)
§ On Question, Bill passed, and returned to the Commons.