SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28Consequential amendments: Scotland

Part 2Amendments of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 37)

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1

Amend section 25 (presumption of equal shares in household goods) as follows.

2

In subsection (1)—

a

after first and third “marriage” insert “ or civil partnership ”, and

b

after second “marriage” insert “ or the partners in a civil partnership ”,

3

In subsection (2), the existing words “the parties were married” become paragraph (a) and after that paragraph insert—

b

the partners were in civil partnership,

4

In subsection (3)—

a

for “in any matrimonial” substitute “ or civil partnership in any family ”, and

b

after second “marriage” insert “ or the partners ”.