182General provisions as to making and effect of declarationsN.I.
(1)Where on an application for a declaration under section 181 the truth of the proposition to be declared is proved to the satisfaction of the court, the court must make the declaration unless to do so would be manifestly contrary to public policy.
(2)Any declaration under section 181 binds Her Majesty and all other persons.
(3)The court, on the dismissal of an application for a declaration under section 181, may not make any declaration for which an application has not been made.
(4)No declaration which may be applied for under section 181 may be made otherwise than under section 181 by any court.
(5)No declaration may be made by any court, whether under section 181 or otherwise, that a civil partnership was at its inception void.
(6)Nothing in this section affects the powers of any court to annul a civil partnership.