Clause 113

In any suit for divorce, or for nullity of marriage, or for judicial separation, or for restitution of conjugal rights, the court may; at any stage of the proceedings, or after a decree absolute has been pronounced, make such orders as it thinks fit with respect to the custody, maintenance and education of the minor children, the marriage of whose parents is the subject of such suit, and may vary or discharge the said orders, and may, if it thinks fit, direct proceedings to be taken for placing such children under the protection of the court.

The court may, if it thinks fit, on any decree of divorce or nullity of marriage, order the husband, or (in the case of a petition for divorce by a wife on the ground of her husband’s insanity) order the wife, to secure for the benefit of the children such gross sum of money or annual sum of money as the court may deem reasonable, and the court may for that purpose order that it shall be referred to the Registrar of the Supreme Court or to some advocate and solicitor to settle and approve a proper deed or instrument to be executed by all necessary parties:Provided that the term for which any sum of money is secured for the benefit of a child shall not extend beyond the date when the child will attain the age of twenty-one years.