Part 4

Civil partnership: Northern Ireland
Chapter 2

Dissolution, nullity and other proceedings

Declarations

Declarations
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1
Any person may apply to the court for one or more of the following declarations in relation to a civil partnership specified in the application—
a
a declaration that the civil partnership was at its inception a valid civil partnership;
b
a declaration that the civil partnership subsisted on a date specified in the application;
c
a declaration that the civil partnership did not subsist on a date so specified;
d
a declaration that the validity of a dissolution, annulment or legal separation obtained in any country outside Northern Ireland in respect of the civil partnership is entitled to recognition in Northern Ireland;
e
a declaration that the validity of a dissolution, annulment or legal separation so obtained in respect of the civil partnership is not entitled to recognition in Northern Ireland.
2
Where an application under subsection (1) is made to the court by a person other than a civil partner in the civil partnership to which the application relates, the court must refuse to hear the application if it considers that the applicant does not have a sufficient interest in the determination of that application.