Dissolution of Marriages on Presumption of Death Act, 1979 (Act No. 23 of 1979)

Any provincial or local division of the Supreme Court of South Africa making an order that the death of any married person shall be presumed, may, when making that order or at any time thereafter, on the application of such person’s spouse, make an order that the marriage in question shall be deemed to have been dissolved by death as from a date determined by the court, whereupon that marriage shall for all purposes be deemed to have been dissolved by death as from the date so determined.