Civil Partnership Act 2004

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

(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,”, and

(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 ”.