Part 1 Financial Relief
Civil Partnership Act 2004 (2004 c 33) | Legislation

SCHEDULE 17 Financial Relief in Northern Ireland after Overseas Dissolution etc of a Civil Partnership

Section 196(4)

Part 1 Financial Relief

Part applies where civil partnership has been dissolved etc overseas

1

(1)     This Part of this Schedule applies where—

(a)     a civil partnership has been dissolved or annulled, or the civil partners have been legally separated, by means of judicial or other proceedings in an overseas country, and

(b)     the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is entitled to be recognised as valid in Northern Ireland.

(2)     This Part of this Schedule applies even if the date of the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is earlier than the date on which the Part comes into force.

(3)     In this Schedule “overseas country†means a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.

(4)     In this Part of this Schedule “child of the family†means—

(a)     a child of both of the civil partners, and

(b)     any other child, other than a child placed with them as foster parents or by an authority or voluntary organisation, who has been treated by both the civil partners as a child of their family.

(5)

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