Marriage Act 2015
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Amendment of Married Women’s Status Act 1957 | ||
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15. The Married Women’s Status Act 1957 is amended— | ||
(a) in section 2(2), by the substitution of “spouse” for “husband”, | ||
(b) in section 4, by the substitution of “Spouses of each other” for “A husband and wife”, | ||
(c) in section 9— | ||
(i) in subsection (1), by the substitution of “spouse” for “husband”, and | ||
(ii) in subsection (2), by the substitution of— | ||
(I)“against his spouse” for “against his wife”, and | ||
(II)“as if he were unmarried” for “as if she were not his wife”, | ||
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(d) by the substitution of the following section for section 18: | ||
“Gifts in fraud of creditors | ||
18. Nothing in this Act shall be construed as validating, as against creditors of a spouse (in this section called the ‘first-mentioned spouse’), any gift, by the first-mentioned spouse to his or her spouse, of any property which, after such gift, continues to be in the order or disposition or reputed ownership of the first-mentioned spouse or any deposit or other investment of moneys of that first-mentioned spouse made by or in the name of his or her spouse in fraud of the first-mentioned spouse’s creditors, and any such moneys so deposited or invested may be followed as if this Act had not been passed.”. |