SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28Consequential amendments: Scotland

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

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(1)

Amend section 16 (agreements on financial provision) as follows.

(2)

In subsection (1)—

(a)

after “marriage” insert “ or the partners in a civil partnership ”, and

(b)

after “divorce” insert “ or on dissolution of the civil partnership ”.

(3)

In subsection (3)—

(a)

after “marriage” insert “ or the partners in a civil partnership ”,

(b)

after first “divorce” insert “ or on dissolution of the civil partnership ”,

(c)

in paragraphs (a) to (c), for “party” and “party's” (in each place) substitute, respectively, “ person ” and “ person's ”, and

(d)

after second “divorce” insert “ or of dissolution of the civil partnership ”.