97. Section 608 of the principal enactment is hereby amended as follows:-
| (1) by the renumbering of that section as subsection (1) of that section; |
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| (2) by the insertion, immediately after the renumbered subsection (1), of the following new subsection: -
| | '(2) Either spouse may-
| | | (a) after the expiry of a period of two years from the entering of a decree of separation under subsection (1) by a District Court, whether entered before or after the relevant date, or |
| (b) notwithstanding that no application has been made under subsection (1) but where there has been a separation a mensa et thoro for a period of seven years, |
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| (3) by the substitution for the marginal note to that section of the following new marginal note: - |
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