Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28 S Consequential amendments: Scotland

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

30 S In section 27(1) (interpretation)—

(a) at the appropriate places insert—

““civil partnership”, in relation to an action for declarator of nullity of a civil partnership, means purported civil partnership,”,

““partner”, in relation to a civil partnership, includes a person who has a partner in a civil partnership which has been terminated and an ostensible partner in a civil partnership which has been annulled,”, and

(b) in the definition of “family”, at the end insert “ and in relation to a civil partnership means the members of the civil partnership together with any child accepted by them both as a child of the family. ”