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Married Persons (Protection)

Cap. 175 · Revised Edition 2020 · 19 sections

• s. 1Short title
• s. 1AInterpretation
• s. 2Orders to which wife is entitled
• s. 4Orders to which husband is entitled
• s. 5Grounds of husband’s application
• s. 6Definition of “habitual drunkard”
• s. 7Condonation of, connivance at, or conduct conducing, adultery a bar to wife’s or husband’s order
• s. 8Power to make order for interim payments
• s. 9Discharge of order on resumption of cohabitation
• s. 10Power to vary or discharge order
• s. 11Saving of power of Supreme Court to make order for judicial separation, etc
• s. 12Continuation of payments in certain cases
• s. 13Amendment by resolution of National Assembly
• s. 14Procedure
• s. 15Enforcement of orders
• s. 16Enforcement of order as to custody
• s. 17Notice of change of address
• s. 18Court may refuse an order in cases more fit for the Supreme Court
• s. 19Appeal