Section 5
Married woman may effect policy of insurance.
The Married Womens Property Act, 1874
About this Act
An Act to explain and amend the law relating to certain married women, for other purposes.
1Any married woman may effect a policy
of insurance on her own behalf and independently of her husband; and the same and all benefit,
thereof, if expressed on the face of it to be so effected, shall enure as her separate property, and the
contract evidenced by such policy shall be as valid as if made with an unmarried woman.
Notes
1. Cf. the Married Women's Property Act, 1870 (33 and 34 Vict., c. 93), s. 10, para. 1.