Court to which petition shall be presented.

¹[Every petition under this Act shall be presented to the district court within the local limits of whose ordinary original civil jurisdiction:—

(i)the marriage was solemnized, or

(ii)the respondent, at the time of the presentation of the petition, resides, or

(iii)the parties to the marriage last resided together, or ²[(iiia) in case the wife is the petitioner, where she is residing on the date of presentation of the petition, or]

(iv)the petitioner is residing at the time of the presentation of the petition, in a case where the respondent is at that time, residing outside the territories to which this Act extends, or has not been heard of as being alive for a period of seven years or more by those persons who would naturally have heard of him if he were alive.]