The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019

Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945N.I.

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124.  In section 37 of the Criminal Justice Act (Northern Ireland) 1945(1) (replacement of presumption of marital coercion with a statutory defence thereof)—

(a)for “wife”, in the second place it occurs, substitute “spouse or civil partner”;

(b)for “husband”, in the third place it occurs, substitute “other spouse or civil partner”.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 124 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)