Family Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, 1997
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Amendment of Domestic Violence Act, 1996. |
4.— Section 3 of the Domestic Violence Act, 1996 , is hereby amended by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (12): | |
“(13) Where, by reason only of either or both of the following, that is to say, a barring order and an interim barring order, an applicant who is not the spouse of the respondent has not lived with the respondent as husband or wife for a period of at least six months in aggregate during the period of nine months immediately prior to the application for a further barring order under subsection (9), the applicant shall be deemed, for the purposes of this section, to have lived with the respondent as husband or wife for a period of at least six months in aggregate during the period of nine months immediately prior to the application.”. |