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60(1)Amend section 12 (restrictions on decrees for divorce, separation or annulment affecting children) as follows.
(2)In subsection (1), the existing words “divorce, judicial separation, or declarator of nullity of marriage” become paragraph (a) and after that paragraph insert “or” and the following paragraph—
“(b)dissolution or declarator of nullity of a civil partnership or separation of civil partners,”.
(3)In subsection (4)—
(a)the existing words from “the parties” to the end become paragraph (a) (with the existing paragraphs (a) and (b) becoming sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii)), and
(b)after the new paragraph (a) insert “or” and the following paragraph—
“(b)the partners in a civil partnership, means a child who has been accepted by both partners as a child of the family which their partnership constitutes.”.
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