http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2921/signature/made

The Family Proceedings (Civil Partnership: Staying of Proceedings) Rules 2005

Civil partnership

Dissolution of civil partnerships

Families

Children in care

King's Printer of Acts of Parliament

2011-07-04

FAMILY PROCEEDINGS;CIVIL PARTNERSHIP, SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES, COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES

These Rules are made under section 223 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which allows for provision to be made in relation to civil partnerships corresponding to the provision made in respect of marriages by Schedule 1 to the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 (c. 45). That Schedule makes provision about the relationship between domestic proceedings for divorce, judicial separation, nullity of marriage and declarations as to the validity and subsistence of a marriage of the petitioner, and proceedings in another jurisdiction of a similar type, and provides for when those domestic proceedings must or may be stayed.