Section 113 Matrimonial Causes Act 1970

Section 113 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1970 is about Savings for sundry domestic and foreign decrees, etc. It provides as follows:

For the avoidance of doubt it is declared-
(a) that a decree, judgment, order or sentence of the High Court of a State of the Federation given, made or pronounced before the commencement of this Act in the exercise of jurisdiction invested or conferred upon it in respect of matrimonial causes and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, notwithstanding the repeal of any legislation under which the decree, judgment, order or sentence was given, made or pronounced, continue to have effect throughout the Federation; and

(b) that the validity of a decree, judgment, order or sentence given, made or pronounced by a court of competent jurisdiction in the Commonwealth (elsewhere than Nigeria) before the commencement of this Act by virtue of any enactment passed or made in respect of a marriage entered into during the war of 1939-45 and in force immediately before the commencement of this Act shall, if reciprocal arrangements are made for the recognition of the like decrees, judgments, orders or sentences given, made or pronounced in Nigeria in respect of any such marriages, be accorded in Nigeria the same recognition as if they were decrees, judgments, orders or sentences given, made or pronounced by a court of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria.