Citation and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Commencement No. 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005.

(2) In this Order—

(a)“the Act” means the Civil Partnership Act 2004; and

(b)references to sections, subsections and Schedules are, unless otherwise stated, references to Parts, sections and subsections of, and Schedules to, the Act.

Provisions coming into force on 5th September 2005

2.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the provisions of the Act specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on 5th September 2005.

(2) Where a particular purpose is specified in relation to a provision in the second column of the Schedule to this Order the provision concerned shall come into force on that date only for that purpose. Where no particular purpose is specified the provision concerned shall come into force on that date for all purposes.

Article 2

SCHEDULEProvisions of the Act coming into force on 5th September 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force on 5th September.2005 the provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) (“the Act”) listed in Column 1 of the Schedule.

These provisions of the Act are being commenced for the particular purpose or purposes specified in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of the Schedule. Where no particular purpose is specified, a provision is being commenced for all purposes. The purposes relate to the making of regulations, orders and rules of court under provisions of the Act and under provisions in existing legislation amended by the Act.

Sections 213(2) to (6), 247(2) to (7), 248(2) to (5), 254(2) to (6), 255, 258, 259, 260, 262, 263, and 264 of the Act came into force on Royal Assent on 18th November 2004.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. A regulatory impact assessment identifying the impact on business and the exchequer of the provisions in the Act was published at the time the Act received Royal Assent. It is available from http://www.dti.gov.uk/access/ria/index.htm.

Note as to Earlier Commencement Orders

(This note is not part of the Order)

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/1112 (C. 47)) was made on 3rd April 2005. That Order brought into force on 15th April 2005 certain provisions of the Act relating to the making of regulations, orders, Orders in Council, rules of court and the issuing of guidance in relation to England and Wales and also those provisions which extend either to England, Wales and Scotland or to England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The provisions brought into force which extend to Northern Ireland are sections 210(1), (2), (4) and (5), 211, 219, 228, 231, 237(2) to (5), 239, 240, 241, 242, 243, 244, 245, Schedule 23 paragraphs 2(1) and (3), 13, 15(1) and (3), 16(3)(a) and 17, Schedule 26 paragraphs 4, 5, 8 and 17 and Schedule 27 paragraphs 12, 21, 162 and 163.