Children and Families Act 2014

Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33)

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66(1)Schedule 2 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (civil partnerships of persons under 18) is amended as follows.

(2)In paragraph 1 (persons whose consent is required), in each of items 4 and 8 in the first column of the table, for “residence order” substitute “child arrangements order to which paragraph 2A applies”.

(3)In paragraph 2 (interpretation of paragraph 1) for ““residence order”,” substitute ““child arrangements order”,”.

(4)In Part 1 (appropriate persons) after paragraph 2 insert—

2AA child arrangements order (as defined by section 8 of the Children Act 1989) is one to which this paragraph applies if the order regulates arrangements that consist of, or include, arrangements which relate to either or both of the following—

(a)with whom the child is to live, and

(b)when the child is to live with any person.