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SCHEDULE 28Consequential amendments: Scotland

Part 2Amendments of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 37)

18(1)Amend section 12 (orders for payment of capital sum or transfer of property) as follows.

(2)In subsection (1)—

(a)in paragraph (a), at the end insert “or of dissolution of a civil partnership”, and

(b)in paragraph (b), for “decree of divorce” substitute “the decree”.

(3)In subsection (4), the existing words “either party to the marriage” become paragraph (a) and after that paragraph insert the following paragraph—

(b)either partner,.