Any married woman whose husband—
(a) has been convicted summarily of an aggravated assault upon her within the meaning of the Criminal Code;
(b) has been convicted upon indictment of an assault upon her;
(c) has deserted her;
(d) has been guilty of persistent cruelty to her or her children or of wilful neglect to provide reasonable maintenance for her or her infant children whom he is legally liable to maintain;
(e) while suffering from venereal disease and knowing that he was so suffering insisted on having sexual intercourse with her;
(f) has compelled her to submit herself to prostitution, and for the purposes of this paragraph where the husband has, in the opinion of the court, been guilty of such conduct as was likely to result and has resulted in her submitting herself to prostitution he shall be deemed to have compelled her so to submit herself;
(g) has been guilty of adultery;
(h) is a habitual drunkard,
may apply to the court in which any such conviction has taken place, or in which the cause of complaint shall have wholly or partially arisen for an order or orders under this Act. However, where a married woman is entitled to apply for an order or orders under this section on the ground of the conviction of her husband upon indictment, she may apply to the court before whom her husband has been convicted and that court shall for the purposes of this section become a court of summary jurisdiction and shall have the power without a jury to hear the application in camera and make the order or orders applied for. (Amended by Acts 17 of 1990 and 4 of 1994)