Part 2

Civil partnership: England and Wales
Chapter 2

Dissolution, nullity and other proceedings

Declarations

Declarations
58
1
Any person may apply to the High Court or the family 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 outside England and Wales in respect of the civil partnership is entitled to recognition in England and Wales;
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 England and Wales.
2
Where an application under subsection (1) is made to a 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.
Words in s. 58 substituted (22.4.2014) by Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22), s. 61(3), Sch. 11 para. 164; S.I. 2014/954, art. 2(e) (with art. 3) (with transitional provisions and savings in S.I. 2014/956, arts. 3-11)