SCHEDULES
C1SCHEDULE 17Financial relief in Northern Ireland after overseas dissolution etc. of a civil partnership
Part 1Financial relief
Part applies where civil partnership has been dissolved etc. overseas
1
1
This Part of this Schedule applies where—
a
a civil partnership has been dissolved or annulled, or the civil partners have been legally separated, by means of judicial or other proceedings in an overseas country, and
b
the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is entitled to be recognised as valid in Northern Ireland.
2
This Part of this Schedule applies even if the date of the dissolution, annulment or legal separation is earlier than the date on which the Part comes into force.
3
In this Schedule “overseas country” means a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
4
In this Part of this Schedule “child of the family” means—
a
a child of both of the civil partners, and
b
any other child, other than a child placed with them as foster parents or by an authority or voluntary organisation, who has been treated by both the civil partners as a child of their family.
5
In sub-paragraph (4) “authority” and “voluntary organisation” have the same meaning as in the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/ 755 (N.I. 2)).
Sch. 17: functions transferred (12.4.2010) by The Northern Ireland Act 1998 (Devolution of Policing and Justice Functions) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/976), art. 15(1), Sch. 17 para. 21(b) (with arts. 15(6), 28-31)