SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 26Amendment of certain enactments relating to the armed forces

Naval Forces (Enforcement of Maintenance Liabilities) Act 1947 (c. 24)

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(1)

Amend section 1 (deduction from pay in respect of liabilities for maintenance, etc.) as follows.

(2)

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

(3)

In subsection (2A), after paragraph (a) insert—

“(aa)

if, in proceedings in connection with the dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership, an order has been made for the payment of any periodical or other sum in respect of the maintenance of the person who, if the civil partnership had subsisted, would have been the civil partner of any such person as is mentioned in subsection (1) above, references in this section to that person’s civil partner include references to the person in whose favour the order was made; and”.