Part 3

Civil partnership: Scotland
Chapter 4

Interdicts

Civil partners: competency of interdict
113
1
It shall not be incompetent for the Court of Session or the sheriff to entertain an application by one civil partner in a civil partnership for a relevant interdict by reason only that the civil partners are living together in civil partnership.
2
In subsection (1) and in section 114, “relevant interdict” means an interdict, including an interim interdict, which—
a
restrains or prohibits any conduct of one civil partner towards the other civil partner or a child of the family, or
b
prohibits a civil partner from entering or remaining in a family home or in a specified area in the vicinity of a family home.