Part 2

Civil partnership: England and Wales
Chapter 6

Miscellaneous

Evidence
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1
Any enactment or rule of law relating to the giving of evidence by a spouse applies in relation to a civil partner as it applies in relation to the spouse.
2
Subsection (1) is subject to any specific amendment made by or under this Act which relates to the giving of evidence by a civil partner.
3
For the avoidance of doubt, in any such amendment, references to a person’s civil partner do not include a former civil partner.
4
References in subsections (1) and (2) to giving evidence are to giving evidence in any way (whether by supplying information, making discovery, producing documents or otherwise).
5
Any rule of law—
a
which is preserved by section 7(3) of the Civil Evidence Act 1995 (c. 38) or section 118(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), and
b
under which in any proceedings evidence of reputation or family tradition is admissible for the purpose of proving or disproving the existence of a marriage,
is to be treated as applying in an equivalent way for the purpose of proving or disproving the existence of a civil partnership.