Applications for financial relief after overseas divorce etc.
16.—(1) Where—
(a)a marriage has been dissolved or annulled, or the parties to a marriage have been legally separated, by means of judicial or other proceedings in an overseas country, and
(b)the divorce, annulment or legal separation is entitled to be recognised as valid in Northern Ireland,
either party to the marriage may apply to the court in the manner prescribed by rules of court for an order for financial relief under this Part.
(2) If after a marriage has been dissolved or annulled in an overseas country one of the parties to the marriage remarries that party shall not be entitled to make an application in relation to that marriage.
(3) For the avoidance of doubt it is hereby declared that the reference in paragraph (2) to remarriage includes a reference to a marriage which is by law void or voidable.
(4) In this Part, except Articles 23, 27 and 28, “order for financial relief” means an order under Article 21 or 26 of a description referred to in that Article.