100. Section 615 of the principal enactment is hereby repealed and the following new section substituted therefor:-
| 615. (1) The court may, if it thinks fit, upon pronouncing a decree of divorce or separation, order for the benefit of either spouse or of the children of the marriage or of both, that the other spouse shall do any one or more of the following: -
| | (a) make such conveyance or settlement as the court thinks reasonable of such property or any part thereof as he may be entitled to; | | |
| | (b) pay a gross sum of money; | | |
| | (c) pay annually or monthly such sums of money as the court thinks reasonable; | | |
| | (d) secure the payment of such sums of money as may be ordered under paragraph (b) or paragraph (c) by the hypothecation of immovable property or by the execution of a bond with or without sureties, or by the purchase of a policy of annuity in an insurance company or other institution approved by court. | | |
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| (2) The court may at any stage discharge, modify, temporarily suspend and revive or enhance an order made under subsection (1).". |
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Sri Lanka Consolidated Acts