Civil Partnership Act 2004

15 (1) Amend section 9 (principles to be applied in deciding what order if any to make for financial provision) as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)—

(a) in paragraph (a), at the end insert “or as the case may be the net value of the partnership property should be so shared between the partners in the civil partnership”,

(b) in paragraph (b), for “party” (in each place) substitute “person”,

(c) in paragraph (c), the existing words “after divorce, for a child of the marriage under the age of 16 years” become sub-paragraph (i), after that sub-paragraph insert—

“(ii) after dissolution of the civil partnership, for a child under that age who has been accepted by both partners as a child of the family,”,

and for “parties” substitute “persons”,

(d) in paragraph (d), for “party” (in both places) substitute “person”, the existing words “the date of the decree of divorce, to the loss of that support on divorce” become sub-paragraph (i) and after that sub-paragraph insert—

“(ii) the date of the decree of dissolution of the civil partnership, to the loss of that support on dissolution,” and

(e) in paragraph (e), for “party” substitute “person”, after first “divorce” insert “or of the dissolution of the civil partnership,” and after second “divorce” insert “or dissolution”.

(3) In subsection (2), in the definitions of “economic advantage” and “contributions”, after “marriage” insert “or civil partnership”.