Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 26 U.K. Amendment of certain enactments relating to the armed forces

Army Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 18) U.K.

28 (1) Section 150 (enforcement of maintenance and affiliation orders by deduction from pay) is amended as follows. U.K.

(2) In subsection (1)(a) and (aa), after “wife” insert “ or civil partner ”.

(3) In subsection (5), after “marriage had subsisted;” insert— “ references to a civil partner include, in relation to an order made in proceedings in connection with the dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership, references to a person who would have been the civil partner of the defendant if the civil partnership had subsisted. ”

29 U.K. In section 151 (deductions from pay for maintenance of wife or child), in subsection (1)—

(a) after “wife” (in the first place) insert “ or civil partner ”, and

(b) for “wife” (in the second place) substitute “ wife, civil partner ”.