Commonwealth Numbered Acts

SOCIAL SERVICES AMENDMENT ACT 1979 No. 121, 1979 - SECT 11

11. Section 31 of the Principal Act is amended by adding at the end thereof
the following sub-section:

''(3) Where-

   (a)  a wife is unable to live together with her husband in a matrimonial
        home by reason that-

        (i)    she or her husband is an inmate of a benevolent home; or

        (ii)   both she and her husband are inmates of a benevolent home or
               benevolent homes; or

   (b)  a wife is unable to live together with her husband in a matrimonial
        home as a result of the illness or infirmity of either or both of
        them, then, for the purposes of sub-section (2), the wife shall be
        taken not to be living apart from her husband by reason only of the
        circumstances set out in paragraph (a) or (b), as the case may be.''.