law: Special Marriage Act, 1954 
  29. Restriction on petitions for
  
  divorce during first three years after marriage 
  (1) No petition for
  
  divorce shall be presented to the district court 31[unless at the
  
  date of the presentation of the petition one year has passed] since the date of
  
  entering the certificate of marriage in the Marriage Certificate Book :
  Provided that the district
  
  court may, upon application being made to it, allow a petition to be presented 31[before
  
  one year has passed] on the ground that the case is one of exceptional hardship
  
  suffered by the petitioner or of exceptional depravity on the part of the
  
  respondent, but if it appears to the district court at the hearing of the
  
  petition that the petitioner obtained leave to present the petition by any
  
  misrepresentation or concealment  of the nature of the case, the district
  
  court may, if it pronounces a decree, do so subject to the condition that the
  
  decree shall not have effect until after the 31[expiry of one year]
  
  from the date of the marriage or may dismiss the petition, without prejudice to
  
  any petition, which may be brought after the 31[expiration of the
  
  said one year] upon the same, or substantially the same, facts as those proved
  
  in support of the petition so dismissed.
  (2) In disposing of
  
  any application under this section for leave to present a petition for divorce
  
  before the 3[expiration of one year] from the date of the marriage,
  
  the district court shall have regard to the interests of any children of the
  
  marriage, and to the question whether there is a reasonable probability of a
  
  reconciliation between the parties before the expiration of the 324[said
  
  one year].