Commonwealth Numbered Acts

MARRIAGE AMENDMENT ACT 1976 No. 209, 1976 - SECT 23

23. (1) After section 111 of the Principal Act the following section is
inserted:- Abolition of action for breach of promise.
''111A. (1) A person is not entitled to recover damages from another person by
reason only of the fact that that other person has failed to perform a
promise, undertaking or engagement to marry the first-mentioned person.

''(2) This section does not affect an action for the recovery of any gifts
given in contemplation of marriage which could have been brought if this
section had not been enacted.''.

(2) The amendment made by sub-section (1) does not affect any action for
breach of promise of marriage that was instituted before the commencement of
this Act.