36. Adjournment.
The court may adjourn the hearing of any petition under this Act, and may require further evidence on
the petition.
37. Making decrees nisi decrees absolute.
(1) No decree nisi of dissolution or nullity of marriage shall be made absolute till after the expiration of
six months from the date of the decree, or such longer period as the Chief Justice may by rules
prescribe.
During that period any person may show cause why the decree should not be made absolute by
reason of the same having been obtained by collusion, or by reason of material facts not having been
brought before the court.
On cause being so shown the court shall make the decree absolute, or reverse the decree nisi, or
require further inquiry, or otherwise deal with the case as justice may demand.
The court may order the costs arising from such cause being shown to be paid by the parties or such
one or more of them, including the wife if she has separate property, as it thinks fit.
Where a petitioner fails to move within a reasonable time that the decree nisi be made absolute, the
court may dismiss the suit.
38. Enforcement of orders and appeals.
All decrees and orders made by the court in proceedings under this Act shall be enforced, and may
be appealed from, as if they were decrees or orders made by the court in the exercise of its original
civil jurisdiction; except that—
in suits for dissolution or nullity of marriage a respondent or corespondent not appearing and
defending the suit on the occasion of the decree nisi being made shall not appeal against the decree
being made absolute, unless the court gives leave to appeal at the time of the decree being made
absolute; and
no appeal from an order absolute for dissolution or nullity of marriage shall lie in favour of any party
who, having had time and opportunity to appeal from the decree nisi, has not appealed from it.
39. Remarriage of the parties.
When the time limit for appealing against a decree of dissolution or nullity of marriage has expired,
and no appeal has been presented, or when in the result of any such appeal, any marriage shall be
declared to be dissolved or annulled, but not sooner, the parties to the marriage may marry again as if
the prior marriage had been dissolved by death.
40. Clergyman of Church of Uganda not bound to marry a divorced
guilty party.
No clergyman in Holy Orders of the Church of Uganda shall be compelled to solemnise the marriage
of any person whose former marriage has been dissolved on the ground of his or her adultery, or shall
be liable to any suit, penalty, or censure for solemnising, or refusing to solemnise, such marriage.
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