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

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

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. ”