SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 28SConsequential amendments: Scotland

Part 2SAmendments of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 37)

23(1)Amend section 17 (financial provision on declarator of nullity of marriage) as follows.S

(2)In subsection (1)—

(a)after first “marriage” insert “ or of a civil partnership ”,

(b)after first “divorce” insert “ or for dissolution of a civil partnership ”,

(c)after second “marriage” insert “ and “action for dissolution of a civil partnership” includes an action for declarator of nullity of a civil partnership ”, and

(d)for “and “divorce”” substitute “ , “divorce” and “dissolution of a civil partnership” ”.

(3)In subsection (2)—

(a)after first “marriage” insert “ or of nullity of a civil partnership ”, and

(b)at the end insert “ or civil partnership ”.