30(1)Section 150 (enforcement of maintenance and affiliation orders by deduction from pay) is amended as follows.
(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.”