SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 26Amendment of certain enactments relating to the armed forces

Naval Discipline Act 1957 (c. 53)

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Section 101 (service of proceedings for maintenance etc.) is amended as follows.

2

In subsection (5)(a) and (b), after “wife” insert “ or civil partner ”.

3

In subsection (5A), after paragraph (a) insert—

aa

references to the civil partner of a person include, in relation to an order made in proceedings in connection with the dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership, references to a person who would have been his civil partner if the civil partnership had subsisted; and