Special Marriage Act : Alternative relief in divorce proceedings. Indian Bare Acts :

Special Marriage Act,1954

Act No : 43

Section : Alternative relief in divorce proceedings.

1*[27A.Alternative relief in divorce proceedings.-In any proceeding under this Act, on a petition for dissolution of marriage by a decree of divorce, except in so far as the petition is founded on the ground mentioned in clause (h) of sub-section (1) of section 27, the court may, if it considers it just so to do having regard to the circumstances of the case, pass instead a decree for judicial separation.]