SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 13Civil partnerships of persons under 18: Northern Ireland

Part 1Appropriate persons

1

Column 2 of the table specifies the appropriate persons (or person) to give consent to a young person whose circumstances fall within column 1 and who intends to register as the civil partner of another—

Case

Appropriate persons

1 The circumstances do not fall within any of items 2 to 4.

Each of the following—

  1. a

    any parent of the young person who has parental responsibility for him, and

  2. b

    any guardian of the young person.

2 A care order has effect with respect to the young person.

Each of the following—

  1. a

    the F2Health and Social Care trust designated in the order, and

  2. b

    any parent or guardian mentioned in item 1.

3 A residence order has effect with respect to the young person.

Each of the persons with whom the young person lives, or is to live, as a result of the order.

4 The circumstances do not fall within item 2 or 3, but a residence order had effect with respect to the young person immediately before he reached 16.

The persons with whom the young person lived, or was to live, as a result of the order.

2

In the table the following expressions have the same meaning as in the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2))—

  • “care order”;

  • “F1Health and Social Care trust”;

  • “parental responsibility”;

  • “residence order”;

and in item 1 “any guardian of the young person” means any person falling within the definition of “guardian of a child” in Article 2(2) of that Order.