SCHEDULE 26Amendment of certain enactments relating to the armed forces
Army Act 1955 (3 & 4 Eliz. 2 c. 18)
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(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.
”
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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
”
.