Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010
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PART 13 Jurisdiction and Other Related Matters | ||
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Definitions. |
139.— In this Part— | |
“ Circuit Court ” means the Circuit Court when it is exercising its jurisdiction to hear and determine civil partnership law proceedings or transferring civil partnership law proceedings to the High Court; | ||
“ civil partner ” includes, where the context requires, a person who was a civil partner in a partnership that has been dissolved; | ||
“ civil partnership law proceedings ” in relation to a court, means proceedings before a court of competent jurisdiction— | ||
(a) under this Act, with the exception of Part 15 , | ||
(b) under the Domestic Violence Act 1996 as amended by Part 9 , or | ||
(c) between civil partners under the Partition Act 1868 and the Partition Act 1876, where the fact that they are civil partners of each other is of relevance to the proceedings. |