Part 5 U.K.Civil partnership formed or dissolved abroad etc.

Chapter 4U.K.Miscellaneous and supplementary

242Power to make provision relating to certain Commonwealth forcesU.K.

(1)This section applies if it appears to Her Majesty that any law in force in Canada, the Commonwealth of Australia or New Zealand (or in a territory of either of the former two countries) makes, in relation to forces raised there, provision similar to that made by section 211 (registration by armed forces personnel).

(2)Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision for securing that the law in question has effect as part of the law of the United Kingdom.