Section 53: Transitional provisions and savings.

Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 · 1973 c. 18View on legislation.gov.uk

Part IV: Miscellaneous and Supplemental

Schedule 1 to this Act shall have effect for the purpose of—

the transition to the provisions of this Act from the law in force before the commencement of this Act;
the preservation for limited purposes of certain provisions superseded by provisions of this Act or by enactments repealed and replaced by this Act; and
the assimilation in certain respects to orders under this Act of orders made, or deemed to have been made, under the Matrimonial Causes Act 1965.

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