Part 4Civil partnership: Northern Ireland

Chapter 2Dissolution, nullity and other proceedings

Declarations

181Declarations

1

Any person may apply to the court for one or more of the following declarations in relation to a civil partnership specified in the application—

a

a declaration that the civil partnership was at its inception a valid civil partnership;

b

a declaration that the civil partnership subsisted on a date specified in the application;

c

a declaration that the civil partnership did not subsist on a date so specified;

d

a declaration that the validity of a dissolution, annulment or legal separation obtained in any country outside Northern Ireland in respect of the civil partnership is entitled to recognition in Northern Ireland;

e

a declaration that the validity of a dissolution, annulment or legal separation so obtained in respect of the civil partnership is not entitled to recognition in Northern Ireland.

2

Where an application under subsection (1) is made to the court by a person other than a civil partner in the civil partnership to which the application relates, the court must refuse to hear the application if it considers that the applicant does not have a sufficient interest in the determination of that application.