Section 99 Matrimonial Causes Act 1970

Section 99 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1970 is about Application of this Act to pending proceedings for dissolution or nullity of marriage, or judicial separation. It provides as follows:

(1) Subject to section 101 of this Act, the provisions of sections 11 to 14, 18 to 20 (including in respect of sections 18 to 20 those sections as applying to proceedings for a decree of judicial separation by virtue of section 40), sections 33, 38, 41 to 45 and 53, sections 62 to 95, and sections 103 to 112 of this Act apply, so far as they are capable of application, to and in relation to pending proceedings, being proceedings for a decree of dissolution or nullity of marriage or judicial separation, as if those proceedings had been instituted under this Act and any decree made in the proceedings had been made in proceedings so instituted.

(2) Subject to section 101 of this Act, the provisions of sections 56 to 61 of this Act shall apply to and in relation to pending proceedings, being proceedings for a decree of dissolution of marriage or nullity of a voidable marriage other than proceedings in which a decree nisi has been pronounced before the commencement of this Act, as if those pending proceedings had been instituted under this Act and any decree made in the proceedings had been made in proceedings so instituted.