2005 No. 499

CIVIL PARTNERSHIP CAUSESCOUNTY COURTS

Civil Partnership Proceedings County Courts Order (Northern Ireland) 2005

Made

Coming into operation

The Lord Chancellor, in exercise of the powers conferred on him by section 188(4) of the Civil Partnership Act 20041 and all other powers enabling him in that behalf, hereby makes the following Order:—

Citation and commencement

1

This Order may be cited as the Civil Partnership Proceedings County Courts Order (Northern Ireland) 2005 and shall come into operation on 5th December 2005.

2

The county courts sitting for the divisions of Londonderry, Antrim, Fermanagh and Tyrone, Armagh and South Down, Ards, Craigavon and Belfast are designated as civil partnership proceedings county courts.

Signed by the authority of the Lord Chancellor

Bridget PrenticeParliamentary Under-Secretary of State,Department for Constitutional Affairs

(This note is not part of the Order.)

This Order designates the county courts sitting for the various county court divisions in Northern Ireland as civil partnership proceedings county courts in which civil partnership causes may be commenced and in which undefended civil partnership causes may be tried under the Civil Partnership Act 2004.