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8In subsection (4) of section 12 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 (restrictions on decrees for divorce, separation or annulment affecting children)—
(a)the existing words from “the parties” to the end shall become paragraph (a) (with the existing paragraphs (a) and (b) becoming sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii)); and
(b)after the new paragraph (a), there shall be added “; or
“(b)the partners in a civil partnership, means a child who has been treated by both partners as a child of the family which their partnership constitutes.”.
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