Part 3Civil partnership: Scotland

Chapter 4Interdicts

113Civil partners: competency of interdict

(1)

It shall not be incompetent for the Court of Session or the sheriff to entertain an application by one civil partner in a civil partnership for a relevant interdict by reason only that the civil partners are living together in civil partnership.

(2)

In subsection (1) and in section 114, “relevant interdict” means an interdict, including an interim interdict, which—

(a)

restrains or prohibits any conduct of one civil partner towards the other civil partner or a child of the family, or

(b)

prohibits a civil partner from entering or remaining in a family home or in a specified area in the vicinity of a family home.