Discharge of order on resumption of cohabitation

(1) If any married person upon whose application an order has been made under this Act, voluntarily resumes co-habitation with his or her spouse, that order shall upon proof thereof be discharged. (2) Notwithstanding sub-section (1), the Court may, if it thinks fit, in the event of the order being discharged under that sub-section, make a new order that the legal custody of the children of the marriage shall, as the case may require– (a) continue to be committed to the wife, and that, subject to section 7 (2), the husband shall pay to the wife or to any officer of the court or any third person on her behalf, such weekly sum as the court, having regards to the means of both the husband and the wife, and to all the circumstances of the case, considers reasonable for the maintenance of each child until the child attains the age of eighteen years; or (b) continue to be committed to the husband, and that, subject to section 7 (2), the wife shall pay to the husband or to any officer of the court or 12 any third person on his behalf, such weekly sum as the court, having regard to the means of both the husband and the wife, and to all the circumstances of the case, considers reasonable, for the maintenance of each until the child attains the age of eighteen years.