New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated ActsA decree for a judicial separation may be pronounced in all cases in which
(a) a decree for a divorce a mensâ et thoro might at any time prior to the passing of the Imperial Act twentieth and twenty-first Victoria chapter eighty-five have been pronounced in England
(b) the petitioner’s case if for dissolution of the marriage has failed or the petition been dismissed but a case for judicial separation has been established.