http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2921/article/9/madeThe Family Proceedings (Civil Partnership: Staying of Proceedings) Rules 2005Civil partnershipDissolution of civil partnershipsFamiliesChildren in careKing's Printer of Acts of Parliament2011-07-04FAMILY PROCEEDINGS;CIVIL PARTNERSHIP, SUPREME COURT OF ENGLAND AND WALES, COUNTY COURTS, ENGLAND AND WALES These Rules are made under section 223 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which allows for provision to be made in relation to civil partnerships corresponding to the provision made in respect of marriages by Schedule 1 to the Domicile and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1973 (c. 45). That Schedule makes provision about the relationship between domestic proceedings for divorce, judicial separation, nullity of marriage and declarations as to the validity and subsistence of a marriage of the petitioner, and proceedings in another jurisdiction of a similar type, and provides for when those domestic proceedings must or may be stayed. Supplementary 9 1 Where — a civil partnership proceedings are proceedings for more than one of the orders mentioned in rule 1(2)(b)(i) to (iii); and b proceedings for some but not all of those orders are stayed, then rules 7 and 8 do not apply. 2 Where paragraph (1) applies the court must not make a relevant order or a lump sum order in connection with the proceedings so far as they are stayed. 3 This rule does not affect the application of the stay except as provided by this rule.