Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 29 N.I. Minor and consequential amendments: Northern Ireland

Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1045 (N.I. 15)) N.I.

30 (1) Amend Article 17 (marriages governed by foreign law or celebrated abroad under certain enactments or common law) as follows. N.I.

(2) In paragraph (1), at the beginning insert “ Subject to paragraph (3) ”.

(3) After paragraph (2) insert—

“(3) No marriage is to be treated as valid by virtue of paragraph (1) if, at the time when it purports to have been celebrated, either party was already a civil partner.”