Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003Show full title

Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/2003 of 27 November 2003 concerning jurisdiction and the recognition and enforcement of judgments in matrimonial matters and the matters of parental responsibility, repealing Regulation (EC) No 1347/2000

Article 66U.K.Member States with two or more legal systems

With regard to a Member State in which two or more systems of law or sets of rules concerning matters governed by this Regulation apply in different territorial units:

(a)

any reference to habitual residence in that Member State shall refer to habitual residence in a territorial unit;

(b)

any reference to nationality, or in the case of the United Kingdom ‘domicile’, shall refer to the territorial unit designated by the law of that State;

(c)

any reference to the authority of a Member State shall refer to the authority of a territorial unit within that State which is concerned;

(d)

any reference to the rules of the requested Member State shall refer to the rules of the territorial unit in which jurisdiction, recognition or enforcement is invoked.