SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1

Transitional Provisions and Savings
Part II

Preservation for limited Purposes of certain Provisions of previous Enactments

Validation of certain void or voidable decrees
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Any decree of divorce, nullity of marriage or judicial separation which, apart from this paragraph, would be void or voidable on the ground only that the provisions of section 33 of the Act of 1965 (restriction on the making of decrees of dissolution or separation where children are affected) or of section 2 of the Matrimonial Proceedings (Children) Act 1958 (corresponding provision replaced by section 33) had not been complied with when the decree was made absolute or granted, as the case may be, shall be deemed always to have been valid unless—
a
the court declared the decree to be void before 1st January 1971, or
b
in proceedings for the annulment of the decree pending at that date the court has before the commencement of this Act declared or after that commencement declares the decree to be void.
1958 c. 40.