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Section 13

Saving of existing settlements and the power to make future settlements

of Married Women Act 1957

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Section 13
(1)

Nothing in this Act other than subsection 5(2) shall interfere with or affect any settlement or agreement for a settlement made or to be made, whether before or after marriage, respecting the property of any married woman.

(2)

No restriction against anticipation contained in any settlement or agreement for a settlement of a woman’s own property to which proviso (a) to subsection 5(1) applies shall, if made or entered into by such woman have any validity against debts contracted by her before marriage, and no settlement or agreement for a settlement shall have any greater force or validity against creditors of a woman than a like settlement or agreement for a settlement made or entered into by a man would have against his creditors.