Clause 96

A petition for judicial separation may be presented to the court either by the husband or the wife on any grounds on which a petition for divorce might have been presented, or on the ground of failure to comply with a decree of restitution of conjugal rights and the provisions of section 86 of this Ordinance relating to the duty of the court on the presentation of a petition for divorce, and the circumstances in which such a petition shall or may be granted or dismissed, shall apply in like manner to a petition for judicial separation.

A decree of judicial separation shall have the effect of a divorce a mensa et thoro under the existing law and such other legal effect as is hereinafter mentioned.