Complex sentence: These bills were primarily handled by the Canadian Senate where a special committee would undertake an investigation of a request for a divorce and if they found that the request had merit, the marriage would be dissolved by an Act of Parliament.
Split into simpler sentences: These bills were primarily handled by the Canadian Senate where a special committee would undertake an investigation of a request for a divorce. If the committe found that the request had merit, the marriage would be dissolved by an Act of Parliament.