The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 No. 1514

PART 4 N.I. Amendments: Children and Families

Property rights where parents not married to, or civil partners of, each other N.I.

39.—(1) Schedule 6 to the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (property rights where parents not married to each other) is amended as follows.

(2) In the heading, after “not married to” insert “or civil partners of”.

(3) In paragraph 1 (succession on intestacy), in sub-paragraph (2), after “not married to” insert “, or civil partners of,”.

(4) In paragraph 4 (entitlement to grant of probate etc), in sub-paragraph (1)(a), after “not married to” insert “, or civil partners of,”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 39 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

I2 Reg. 38 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)