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Property of married women
Cap. 176, s. 4 · Revised Edition 2020
(1) Subject to this Act, all property which,
(a) immediately before 8th August, 1953, was the separate property of a married woman or held for her separate use in equity;
(b) belongs at the time of her marriage to a woman married after that date; or
(c) after that date, is acquired by or devolves upon a married woman, shall belong to her in all respects as if she were a feme sole and may be disposed of accordingly.
(2) No restriction upon anticipation or alienation attached,
or purported to be attached, to the enjoyment of any property by a woman which could not have been attached to the enjoyment of that property by a man shall be of any effect after the passing of this Act.
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