Civil Partnership Act 2004

(including one made in an unrevoked will or codicil) is revoked if the person appointed is the civil partner of the person who made the appointment and either—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>an order of a court of civil jurisdiction in England and Wales dissolves or annuls the civil partnership, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the civil partnership is dissolved or annulled and the dissolution or annulment is entitled to recognition in England and Wales by virtue of Chapter 3 of Part 5 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>unless a contrary intention appears by the appointment.</p></wrapUp></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-77"><num>77</num><heading>Entitlement to apply for residence or contact order</heading><content><p><mod>In section 10(5) of the 1989 Act (persons entitled to apply for residence or contact order) after paragraph (a) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(aa)</num><content><p>any civil partner in a civil partnership (whether or not subsisting) in relation to whom the child is a child of the family;</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-78"><num>78</num><heading>Financial provision for children</heading><subsection eId="section-78-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Amend Schedule 1 to the 1989 Act (financial provision for children) as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-78-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>In paragraph 2(6) (meaning of “periodical payments order”) after paragraph (d) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="unknown" uk:docName="unknown" ukl:TargetClass="unknown" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="unknown" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(e)</num><content><p>Part 1 or 9 of Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (financial relief in the High Court or a county court <abbr title="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</abbr>);</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(f)</num><content><p>Schedule 6 to the 2004 Act (financial relief in the magistrates' courts <abbr title="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</abbr>),</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-78-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>In paragraph 15(2) (person with whom a child lives or is to live) after “husband or wife” insert <quotedText>“ or civil partner ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-78-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>For paragraph 16(2) (extended meaning of “parent”) substitute—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="unknown" uk:docName="unknown" ukl:TargetClass="unknown" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="unknown" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In this Schedule, except paragraphs 2 and 15, “<term refersTo="#term-parent">parent</term>” includes—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>any party to a marriage (whether or not subsisting) in relation to whom the child concerned is a child of the family, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>any civil partner in a civil partnership (whether or not subsisting) in relation to whom the child concerned is a child of the family;</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>and for this purpose any reference to either parent or both parents shall be read as a reference to any parent of his and to all of his parents.</p></wrapUp></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-79"><num>79</num><heading>Adoption</heading><subsection eId="section-79-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Amend the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (c. 38) as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>In section 21 (placement orders), in subsection (4)(c), after “child marries” insert <quotedText>“ , forms a civil partnership ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>In section 47 (conditions for making adoption orders), after subsection (8) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(8A)</num><content><p>An adoption order may not be made in relation to a person who is or has been a civil partner.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>In section 51 (adoption by one person), in subsection (1), after “is not married” insert <quotedText>“ or a civil partner ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>After section 51(3) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(3A)</num><intro><p>An adoption order may be made on the application of one person who has attained the age of 21 years and is a civil partner if the court is satisfied that—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the person’s civil partner cannot be found,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the civil partners have separated and are living apart, and the separation is likely to be permanent, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the person’s civil partner is by reason of ill-health, whether physical or mental, incapable of making an application for an adoption order.</p></content></level></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p><mod>In section 64 (other provision to be made by regulations), in subsection (5) for “or marriage” substitute <quotedText>“ , marriage or civil partnership ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p><mod>In section 74(1) (enactments for whose purposes section 67 does not apply), for paragraph (a) substitute—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>section 1 of and Schedule 1 to the Marriage Act 1949 or Schedule 1 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (prohibited degrees of kindred and affinity),</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>In section 79 (connections between the register and birth records), in subsection (7)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-79-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><mod>in paragraph (b), after “intends to be married” insert <quotedText>“ or form a civil partnership ”</quotedText>, and</mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-79-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>for “the person whom the applicant intends to marry” substitute <quotedText>“ the intended spouse or civil partner ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-9"><num>(9)</num><content><p><mod>In section 81 (Adoption Contact Register: supplementary), in subsection (2) for “or marriage” substitute <quotedText>“ , marriage or civil partnership ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-10"><num>(10)</num><content><p><mod>In section 98 (pre-commencement adoptions: information), in subsection (7), in the definition of “relative” for “or marriage” substitute <quotedText>“ , marriage or civil partnership ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-11"><num>(11)</num><content><p><mod>In section 144 (interpretation), in the definition of “relative” in subsection (1), after “by marriage” insert <quotedText>“ or civil partnership ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-79-12"><num>(12)</num><content><p><mod>In section 144(4) (meaning of “couple”), after paragraph (a) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(aa)</num><content><p>two people who are civil partners of each other, or</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection></section></chapter><chapter eId="part-2-chapter-6"><num>Chapter 6</num><heading>Miscellaneous</heading><section eId="section-80"><num>80</num><heading>False statements <abbr title="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</abbr> with reference to civil partnerships</heading><subsection eId="section-80-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>A person commits an offence if—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-80-1-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>for the purpose of procuring the formation of a civil partnership, or a document mentioned in subsection (2), he—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-80-1-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>makes or signs a declaration required under this Part or Part 5, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-80-1-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>gives a notice or certificate so required,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>knowing that the declaration, notice or certificate is false,</p></wrapUp></level><level class="para1" eId="section-80-1-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>for the purpose of a record being made in any register relating to civil partnerships, he—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-80-1-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>makes a statement as to any information which is required to be registered under this Part or Part 5, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-80-1-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>causes such a statement to be made,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>knowing that the statement is false, <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-f1c3530bb9154ae4bdcc61e793d62704-1677773021405" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-f1c3530bb9154ae4bdcc61e793d62704"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-f1c3530bb9154ae4bdcc61e793d62704" class="commentary"/>or</ins> </p></wrapUp></level><level class="para1" eId="section-80-1-c"><num><noteRef href="#key-ad24377865c88c7b6bd161ad1bf82814" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>(c)</num><content><p>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-80-1-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>with respect to a declaration made under paragraph 5(1) of Schedule 1 he makes a statement mentioned in paragraph 6 of that Schedule which he knows to be false in a material particular.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-80-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>The documents are—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-80-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>a civil partnership schedule or a Registrar General’s licence under Chapter 1;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-80-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a document required by an Order in Council under section 210 or 211 as an authority for two people to register as civil partners of each other;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-80-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>a certificate of no impediment under section 240.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-80-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>A person guilty of an offence under subsection (1) is liable—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-80-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>on conviction on indictment, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 7 years or to a fine (or both);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-80-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding the statutory maximum.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-80-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The Perjury Act 1911 (c. 6) has effect as if this section were contained in it.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-81"><num>81</num><heading>Housing and tenancies</heading><content><p>Schedule 8 amends certain enactments relating to housing and tenancies.</p></content></section><section eId="section-82"><num>82</num><heading>Family homes and domestic violence</heading><content><p>Schedule 9 amends Part 4 of the Family Law Act 1996 (c. 27) and related enactments so that they apply in relation to civil partnerships as they apply in relation to marriages.</p></content></section><section eId="section-83"><num>83</num><heading>Fatal accidents claims</heading><subsection eId="section-83-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Amend the Fatal Accidents Act 1976 (c. 30) as follows.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-83-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><mod>In section 1(3) (meaning of “dependant” for purposes of right of action for wrongful act causing death), after paragraph (a) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(aa)</num><content><p>the civil partner or former civil partner of the deceased;</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-83-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p><mod>In paragraph (b)(iii) of section 1(3), after “wife” insert <quotedText>“ or civil partner ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-83-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p><mod>After paragraph (f) of section 1(3) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(fa)</num><content><p>any person (not being a child of the deceased) who, in the case of any civil partnership in which the deceased was at any time a civil partner, was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to that civil partnership;</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">.</inline></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-83-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>After section 1(4) insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><subsection><num>(4A)</num><content><p>The reference to the former civil partner of the deceased in subsection (3)(aa) above includes a reference to a person whose civil partnership with the deceased has been annulled as well as a person whose civil partnership with the deceased has been dissolved.</p></content></subsection></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-83-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p><mod>In section 1(5)(a), for “by affinity” substitute <quotedText>“ by marriage or civil partnership ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-83-7"><num>(7)</num><intro><p>In section 1A(2) (persons for whose benefit claim for bereavement damages may be made)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-83-7-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><mod>in paragraph (a), after “wife or husband” insert <quotedText>“ or civil partner ”</quotedText>, and</mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-83-7-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>in paragraph (b), after “was never married” insert <quotedText>“ or a civil partner ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-83-8"><num>(8)</num><content><p><mod>In section 3 (assessment of damages), in subsection (4), after “wife” insert <quotedText>“ or civil partner ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-84"><num>84</num><heading>Evidence</heading><subsection eId="section-84-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Any enactment or rule of law relating to the giving of evidence by a spouse applies in relation to a civil partner as it applies in relation to the spouse.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-84-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Subsection (1) is subject to any specific amendment made by or under this Act which relates to the giving of evidence by a civil partner.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-84-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>For the avoidance of doubt, in any such amendment, references to a person’s civil partner do not include a former civil partner.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-84-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>References in subsections (1) and (2) to giving evidence are to giving evidence in any way (whether by supplying information, making discovery, producing documents or otherwise).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-84-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>Any rule of law—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-84-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>which is preserved by section 7(3) of the Civil Evidence Act 1995 (c. 38) or section 118(1) of the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-84-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>under which in any proceedings evidence of reputation or family tradition is admissible for the purpose of proving or disproving the existence of a marriage,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>is to be treated as applying in an equivalent way for the purpose of proving or disproving the existence of a civil partnership.</p></wrapUp></subsection></section></chapter></part>

(time limits) has effect for the purposes of this section as it has for the purposes of that section.</p></content></subsection></section></chapter><chapter eId="part-3-chapter-3"><num>Chapter 3</num><heading>Occupancy rights and tenancies</heading><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-3-crossheading-occupancy-rights"><heading><i>Occupancy rights</i></heading><section eId="section-101"><num>101</num><heading>Occupancy rights</heading><subsection eId="section-101-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Where, apart from the provisions of this Chapter, one civil partner in a civil partnership is entitled, or permitted by a third party, to occupy a family home of the civil partnership (that civil partner being referred in this Chapter as an “<term refersTo="#term-entitled-partner" eId="term-entitled-partner">entitled partner</term>”) and the other civil partner is not so entitled or permitted (a “<term refersTo="#term-non-entitled-partner" eId="term-non-entitled-partner">non-entitled partner</term>”), the non-entitled partner has, subject to the provisions of this Chapter, the following rights—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-101-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>if in occupation, a right to continue to occupy the family home;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-101-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>if not in occupation, a right to enter into and occupy the family home.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The rights conferred by subsection (1) to continue to occupy or, as the case may be, to enter and occupy the family home include, without prejudice to their generality, the right to do so together with any child of the family.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In subsection (1), an “<term refersTo="#term-entitled-partner" eId="term-entitled-partner">entitled partner</term>” includes a civil partner who is entitled, or permitted by a third party, to occupy the family home along with an individual who is not the other civil partner only if that individual has waived a right of occupation in favour of the civil partner so entitled or permitted.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>If the entitled partner refuses to allow the non-entitled partner to exercise the right conferred by subsection (1)(b), the non-entitled partner may exercise that right only with the leave of the Court of Session or the sheriff under section 103(3) or (4).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>A non-entitled partner may renounce in writing the rights mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (b) of subsection (1) only—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-101-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>in a particular family home, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-101-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in a particular property which it is intended by the civil partners will become their family home.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>A renunciation under subsection (5) has effect only if, at the time of making the renunciation, the non-entitled partner swears or affirms before a notary public that it is made freely and without coercion of any kind.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-6A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601411" class="commentary"/>(6A)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">Subject to subsection (5), if—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-101-6A-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">there has been no cohabitation between an entitled partner and a non-entitled partner during a continuous period of two years, and</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-101-6A-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">during that period the non-entitled partner has not occupied the family home,</ins></p></content></level><wrapUp><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">the non-entitled partner shall, on the expiry of that period, cease to have occupancy rights in the family home.</ins></p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-6B"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">(6B)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p6986" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601411">A non-entitled partner who has ceased to have occupancy rights by virtue of subsection (6A) may not apply to the court for an order under section 103(1).</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-101-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>In this Part—</p></content></subsection><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-child-of-the-family" eId="term-child-of-the-family">child of the family</term>” means <ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7029" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601441"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601441" class="commentary"/>any child or grandchild of either civil partner, and any person who has been brought up or treated by either civil partner as if the person were a child of that partner, whatever the age of such a child, grandchild or person</ins>, and</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-family" eId="term-family">family</term>” means the civil partners in the civil partnership, together with any child <ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7040" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601481"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601481" class="commentary"/>, grandchild or person so treated</ins> by them.</p></content></hcontainer><subsection eId="section-101-8"><num>(8)</num><content><p>In subsection (6), “<term refersTo="#term-notary-public" eId="term-notary-public">notary public</term>” includes any person duly authorised, by the law of the country other than Scotland in which the swearing or affirmation takes place, to administer oaths or receive affirmations in that other country.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-102"><num>102</num><heading>Occupancy: subsidiary and consequential rights</heading><subsection eId="section-102-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>For the purpose of securing the occupancy rights of a non-entitled partner, that partner is, in relation to a family home, entitled without the consent of the entitled partner—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-102-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to make any payment due by the entitled partner in respect of rent, rates, secured loan instalments, interest or other outgoings (not being outgoings on repairs or improvements);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to perform any other obligation incumbent on the entitled partner (not being an obligation in respect of non-essential repairs or improvements);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-1-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>to enforce performance of an obligation by a third party which that third party has undertaken to the entitled partner to the extent that the entitled partner may enforce such performance;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-1-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>to carry out such essential repairs as the entitled partner may carry out;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-1-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>to carry out such non-essential repairs or improvements as may be authorised by an order of the court, being such repairs or improvements as the entitled partner may carry out and which the court considers to be appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the occupancy rights;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-1-f"><num>(f)</num><content><p>to take such other steps, for the purpose of protecting the occupancy rights of the non-entitled partner, as the entitled partner may take to protect the occupancy rights of the entitled partner.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Any payment made under subsection (1)(a) or any obligation performed under subsection (1)(b) has effect in relation to the rights of a third party as if the payment were made or the obligation were performed by the entitled partner; and the performance of an obligation which has been enforced under subsection (1)(c) has effect as if it had been enforced by the entitled partner.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>Where there is an entitled and a non-entitled partner, the court, on the application of either of them, may, having regard in particular to the respective financial circumstances of the partners, make an order apportioning expenditure incurred or to be incurred by either partner—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-102-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>without the consent of the other partner, on any of the items mentioned in paragraphs (a) and (d) of subsection (1);</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>with the consent of the other partner, on anything relating to a family home.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Where both partners are entitled, or permitted by a third party, to occupy a family home—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-102-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>either partner is entitled, without the consent of the other partner, to carry out such non-essential repairs or improvements as may be authorised by an order of the court, being such repairs or improvements as the court considers to be appropriate for the reasonable enjoyment of the occupancy rights;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the court, on the application of either partner, may, having regard in particular to the respective financial circumstances of the partners, make an order apportioning expenditure incurred or to be incurred by either partner, with or without the consent of the other partner, on anything relating to the family home.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>Where one partner (“A”) owns or hires, or is acquiring under a hire-purchase or conditional sale agreement, furniture and plenishings in a family home—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-102-5-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>the other partner may, without the consent of A—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-102-5-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>make any payment due by A which is necessary, or take any other step which A is entitled to take, to secure the possession or use of any such furniture and plenishings (and any such payment is to have effect in relation to the rights of a third party as if it were made by A), or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-102-5-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>carry out such essential repairs to the furniture and plenishings as A is entitled to carry out;</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-5-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>the court, on the application of either partner, may, having regard in particular to the respective financial circumstances of the partners, make an order apportioning expenditure incurred or to be incurred by either partner—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-102-5-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>without the consent of the other partner, in making payments under a hire, hire-purchase or conditional sale agreement, or in paying interest charges in respect of the furniture and plenishings, or in carrying out essential repairs to the furniture and plenishings, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-102-5-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>with the consent of the other partner, on anything relating to the furniture or plenishings.</p></content></level></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>An order under subsection (3), (4)(b) or (5)(b) may require one partner to make a payment to the other partner in implementation of the apportionment.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>Any application under subsection (3), (4)(b) or (5)(b) is to be made within 5 years after the date on which any payment in respect of such incurred expenditure was made.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>Where—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-102-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the entitled partner is a tenant of a family home,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>possession of it is necessary in order to continue the tenancy, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-102-8-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the entitled partner abandons such possession,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>the tenancy is continued by such possession by the non-entitled partner.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-8A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e-1744118403244" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e" class="commentary"/>(8A)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e-1744118403244" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e">In subsection (1)(a), “</ins><term refersTo="#term-secured-loan"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e-1744118403244" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e">secured loan</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e-1744118403244" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e">” includes secured obligation (construed in accordance with </ins><ref href="#section-43"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e-1744118403244" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e">section 43</ins></ref><ref href="#section-43-1"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e-1744118403244" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e">(1)</ins></ref><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e-1744118403244" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-1eedb7b80fe5f5d4d54e413ea9cad58e"> of the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023).</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-102-9"><num>(9)</num><content><p>In this section “<term refersTo="#term-improvements" eId="term-improvements">improvements</term>” includes alterations and enlargement.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-103"><num>103</num><heading>Regulation by court of rights of occupancy of family home</heading><subsection eId="section-103-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p><ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7247" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601501"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601501" class="commentary"/>Subject to section 101(6A),</ins> Where there is an entitled and a non-entitled partner, or where both partners are entitled, or permitted by a third party, to occupy a family home, either partner may apply to the court for an order—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-103-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>declaring the occupancy rights of the applicant partner;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>enforcing the occupancy rights of the applicant partner;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-1-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>restricting the occupancy rights of the non-applicant partner;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-1-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>regulating the exercise by either partner of his or her occupancy rights;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-1-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>protecting the occupancy rights of the applicant partner in relation to the other partner.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Where one partner owns or hires, or is acquiring under a hire-purchase or conditional sale agreement, furniture and plenishings in a family home and the other partner has occupancy rights in that home, that other person may apply to the court for an order granting to the applicant the possession or use in the family home of any such furniture and plenishings; but, subject to section 102, an order under this subsection does not prejudice the rights of any third party in relation to the non-performance of any obligation under such hire-purchase or conditional sale agreement <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-acbeebb51f929b9806e257bc2169f428-1744118928563" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-acbeebb51f929b9806e257bc2169f428"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-acbeebb51f929b9806e257bc2169f428" class="commentary"/>or the rights of any secured creditor in relation to the non-performance of a secured obligation.</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The court is to grant an application under subsection (1)(a) if it appears to the court that the application relates to a family home; and, on an application under any of paragraphs (b) to (e) of subsection (1) or under subsection (2), the court may make such order relating to the application as appears to it to be just and reasonable having regard to all the circumstances of the case including—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-103-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the conduct of the partners, whether in relation to each other or otherwise,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the respective needs and financial resources of the partners,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-3-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the needs of any child of the family,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-3-d"><num>(d)</num><intro><p>the extent (if any) to which—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-103-3-d-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the family home, and</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-103-3-d-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>in relation only to an order under subsection (2), any item of furniture and plenishings referred to in that subsection, is used in connection with a trade, business or profession of either partner, and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-3-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>whether the entitled partner offers or has offered to make available to the non-entitled partner any suitable alternative accommodation.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Pending the making of an order under subsection (3), the court, on the application of either partner, may make such interim order as it considers necessary or expedient in relation to—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-103-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the residence of either partner in the home to which the application relates,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the personal effects of either partner or of any child of the family, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-4-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the furniture and plenishings,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>but an interim order may be made only if the non-applicant partner has been afforded an opportunity of being heard by or represented before the court.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>The court is not to make an order under subsection (3) or (4) if it appears that the effect of the order would be to exclude the non-applicant partner from the family home.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>If the court makes an order under subsection (3) or (4) which requires the delivery to one partner of anything which has been left in or removed from the family home, it may also grant a warrant authorising a messenger-at-arms or sheriff officer to enter the family home or other premises occupied by the other partner and to search for and take possession of the thing required to be delivered, (if need be by opening shut and lockfast places) and to deliver the thing in accordance with the order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>A warrant granted under subsection (6) is to be executed only after expiry of such period as the court is to specify in the order for delivery.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>Where it appears to the court—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-103-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>on the application of a non-entitled partner, that the applicant has suffered a loss of occupancy rights or that the quality of the applicant’s occupation of a family home has been impaired, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-103-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>on the application of a partner who has been given the possession or use of furniture and plenishings by virtue of an order under subsection (3), that the applicant has suffered a loss of such possession or use or that the quality of the applicant’s possession or use of the furniture and plenishings has been impaired,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>in consequence of any act or default on the part of the other partner which was intended to result in such loss or impairment, it may order that other partner to pay to the applicant such compensation as it considers just and reasonable in respect of that loss or impairment.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-9"><num>(9)</num><content><p>A partner may renounce in writing the right to apply under subsection (2) for the possession or use of any item of furniture and plenishings.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-103-10"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0" class="commentary"/>(10)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">In subsection (2)—</ins></p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">“</ins><term refersTo="#term-secured-creditor"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">secured creditor</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">” has the meaning given by </ins><ref href="#section-113"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">section 113</ins></ref><ref href="#section-113-1"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">(1)</ins></ref><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0"> of the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023, and</ins></p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">“</ins><term refersTo="#term-secured-obligation"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">secured obligation</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">” is to be construed in accordance with </ins><ref href="#section-43"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">section 43</ins></ref><ref href="#section-43-1"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0">(1)</ins></ref><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0-1744118984095" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-22a47813a8aeebc4bbc51182aa3589e0"> of the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023.</ins></p></content></hcontainer></subsection></section><section eId="section-104"><num>104</num><heading>Exclusion orders</heading><subsection eId="section-104-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Where there is an entitled and non-entitled partner, or where both partners are entitled, or permitted by a third party, to occupy a family home, either partner, whether or not that partner is in occupation at the time of the application, may apply to the court for an order (in this Chapter referred to as “<term refersTo="#term-an-exclusion-order" eId="term-an-exclusion-order">an exclusion order</term>”) suspending the occupancy rights of the other partner (“<term refersTo="#term-the-non-applicant-partner" eId="term-the-non-applicant-partner">the non-applicant partner</term>”) in a family home.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-104-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Subject to subsection (3), the court is to make an exclusion order if it appears to it that to do so is necessary for the protection of the applicant or any child of the family from any conduct, or threatened or reasonably apprehended conduct, of the non-applicant partner which is or would be injurious to the physical or mental health of the applicant or child.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-104-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The court is not to make an exclusion order if it appears to it that to do so would be unjustified or unreasonable—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-104-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>having regard to all the circumstances of the case including the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 103(3), and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-104-3-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>where the family home—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-104-3-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>is, or is part of, an agricultural holding within the meaning of section 1 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55), or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-104-3-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>is let, or is a home in respect of which possession is given, to the non-applicant partner or to both partners by an employer as an incident of employment,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>having regard to any requirement that the non-applicant partner, or, as the case may be, both partners must reside in the family home and to the likely consequences of the exclusion of the non-applicant partner from the family home.</p></wrapUp></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-104-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>In making an exclusion order the court is, on the application of the applicant partner—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-104-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>to grant a warrant for the summary ejection of the non-applicant partner from the family home unless the non-applicant partner satisfies the court that it is unnecessary for it to grant such a remedy,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-104-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>to grant an interdict prohibiting the non-applicant partner from entering the family home without the express permission of the applicant, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-104-4-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>to grant an interdict prohibiting the removal by the non-applicant partner, except with the written consent of the applicant or by a further order of the court, of any furniture and plenishings in the family home unless the non-applicant partner satisfies the court that it is unnecessary for it to grant such a remedy.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-104-5"><num>(5)</num><intro><p>In making an exclusion order the court may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-104-5-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>grant an interdict prohibiting the non-applicant partner from entering or remaining in a specified area in the vicinity of the family home;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-104-5-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>where the warrant for the summary ejection of the non-applicant partner has been granted in that partner’s absence, give directions as to the preservation of that partner’s goods and effects which remain in the family home;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-104-5-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>on the application of either partner, make the exclusion order or the warrant or interdict mentioned in paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection (4) or paragraph (a) of this subsection subject to such terms and conditions as the court may prescribe;</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-104-5-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>on the application of either partner, make such other order as it considers necessary for the proper enforcement of an order made under subsection (4) or paragraph (a), (b) or (c).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-104-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>Pending the making of an exclusion order, the court may, on the application of the applicant partner, make an interim order suspending the occupancy rights of the non-applicant partner in the family home to which the application for the exclusion order relates; and subsections (4) and (5) apply to such an interim order as they apply to an exclusion order.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-104-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>But an interim order may be made only if the non-applicant partner has been afforded an opportunity of being heard by or represented before the court.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-104-8"><num>(8)</num><content><p>Without prejudice to subsections (1) and (6), where both partners are entitled, or permitted by a third party, to occupy a family home, it is incompetent for one partner to bring an action of ejection from the family home against the other partner.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-105"><num>105</num><heading>Duration of orders under sections 103 and 104</heading><subsection eId="section-105-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The court may, on the application of either partner, vary or recall any order made by it under section 103 or 104.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-105-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Subject to subsection (3), any such order, unless previously so varied or recalled, ceases to have effect—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-105-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>on the dissolution of the civil partnership,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-105-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>subject to section 106(1), where there is an entitled and non-entitled partner, on the entitled partner ceasing to be an entitled partner in respect of the family home to which the order relates, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-105-2-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>where both partners are entitled, or permitted by a third party, to occupy the family home, on both partners ceasing to be so entitled or permitted.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-105-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (2), an order under section 103(3) or (4) which grants the possession or use of furniture and plenishings ceases to have effect if the furniture and plenishings cease to be permitted by a third party to be retained in the family home.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-106"><num>106</num><heading>Continued exercise of occupancy rights after dealing</heading><subsection eId="section-106-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Subject to subsection (3)—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-106-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the continued exercise of the rights conferred on a non-entitled partner by the provisions of this Chapter in respect of a family home are not prejudiced by reason only of any dealing of the entitled partner relating to that home, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-106-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a third party is not by reason only of such a dealing entitled to occupy that home or any part of it.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-106-1A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7605" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601681"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601681" class="commentary"/>(1A)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7605" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601681">The occupancy rights of a non-entitled partner in relation to a family home shall not be exercisable in relation to the home where, following a dealing of the entitled partner relating to the home—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-106-1A-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7605" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601681">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7605" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601681">a person acquires the home, or an interest in it, in good faith and for value from a person other than the person who is or, as the case may be, was the entitled partner, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-106-1A-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7605" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601681">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7605" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601681">a person derives title to the home from a person who acquired title as mentioned in paragraph (a).</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-106-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In this section and section 107—</p></content></subsection><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-dealing" eId="term-dealing">dealing</term>” includes the grant of a heritable security <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-755fbe6a014c1f1cb3dd756e19d5dd43-1744119115148" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-755fbe6a014c1f1cb3dd756e19d5dd43"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-755fbe6a014c1f1cb3dd756e19d5dd43" class="commentary"/>, the grant of a statutory pledge</ins> and the creation of a trust but does not include a conveyance under section 80 of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act 1845 (c. 18);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“<term refersTo="#term-entitled-partner" eId="term-entitled-partner">entitled partner</term>” does not include a civil partner who, apart from the provisions of this Chapter—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>is permitted by a third party to occupy a family home, or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>is entitled to occupy a family home along with an individual who is not the other civil partner whether or not that individual has waived a right of occupation in favour of the civil partner so entitled,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>(“<term refersTo="#term-non-entitled-partner" eId="term-non-entitled-partner">non-entitled partner</term>” being construed accordingly).</p></wrapUp></hcontainer><subsection eId="section-106-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>This section does not apply in any case where—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-106-3-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>the non-entitled partner in writing either—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-106-3-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>consents or has consented to the dealing (any consent being in such form as the Scottish Ministers may, by regulations made by statutory instrument, prescribe), or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-106-3-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>renounces or has renounced occupancy rights in relation to the family home or property to which the dealing relates,</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-106-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the court has made an order under section 107 dispensing with the consent of the non-entitled partner to the dealing,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-106-3-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the dealing occurred, or implements a binding obligation entered into by the entitled partner, before the registration of the civil partnership,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-106-3-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>the dealing occurred, or implements a binding obligation entered into, before the commencement of this section,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-106-3-e"><num>(e)</num><intro><p>the dealing comprises a <ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7709" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601701"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601701" class="commentary"/>transfer for value</ins> to a third party who has acted in good faith, if there is produced to the third party by the <ins class="substitution first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7713" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601721"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601721" class="commentary"/>transferor—</ins></p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-106-3-e-i"><num><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7713" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601721">(i)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7713" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601721">a written declaration signed by the transferor, or a person acting on behalf of the transferor under a power of attorney or as a guardian (within the meaning of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4)), that the subjects of the transfer are not, or were not at the time of the dealing, a family home in relation to which a civil partner of the transferor has or had occupancy rights, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-106-3-e-ii"><num><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7713" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601721">(ii)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="substitution last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7713" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601721">a renunciation of occupancy rights or consent to the dealing which bears to have been properly made or given by the non-entitled partner or a person acting on behalf of the non-entitled partner under a power of attorney or as a guardian (within the meaning of the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000 (asp 4)).</ins></p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-106-3-f"><num>(f)</num><content><p>the entitled partner has permanently ceased to be entitled to occupy the family home, and at any time after that a continuous period of <ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7734" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601741"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601741" class="commentary"/>2</ins> years has elapsed during which the non-entitled partner has not occupied the family home.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-106-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>For the purposes of subsection (3)(e), the time of the dealing, in the case of the sale of an interest in heritable property, is the date of delivery to the purchaser of the deed transferring title to that interest.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-107"><num>107</num><heading>Dispensation with civil partner’s consent to dealing</heading><subsection eId="section-107-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p><ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7757" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601761"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601761" class="commentary"/>Subject to subsections (1A) and (1C),</ins> The court may, on the application of an entitled partner or any other person having an interest, make an order dispensing with the consent of a non-entitled partner to a dealing which has taken place or a proposed dealing, if—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>such consent is unreasonably withheld,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>such consent cannot be given by reason of physical or mental disability, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>the non-entitled partner cannot be found after reasonable steps have been taken to trace that partner.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-1A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20601781" class="commentary"/>(1A)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">Subsection (1B) applies if, in relation to a proposed sale—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1A-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">negotiations with a third party have not begun, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1A-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">negotiations have begun but a price has not been agreed.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-1B"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(1B)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">An order under subsection (1) dispensing with consent may be made only if—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1B-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">the price agreed for the sale is no less than such amount as the court specifies in the order, and</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1B-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">the contract for the sale is concluded before the expiry of such period as may be so specified.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-1C"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(1C)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">Subsection (1D) applies if the proposed dealing is the grant of a heritable security.</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-1D"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(1D)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">An order under subsection (1) dispensing with consent may be made only if—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1D-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">the heritable security is granted for a loan of no more than such amount as the court specifies in the order, and</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-1D-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7779" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20601781">the security is executed before the expiry of such period as may be so specified.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>For the purposes of subsection (1)(a), a non-entitled partner has unreasonably withheld consent to a dealing which has taken place or a proposed dealing, where it appears to the court either—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-107-2-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>that the non-entitled partner—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-107-2-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>has led the entitled partner to believe that the non-entitled partner would consent to the dealing, and</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-107-2-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>would not be prejudiced by any change in the circumstances of the case since the conduct which gave rise to that belief occurred, or</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that the entitled partner has, having taken all reasonable steps to do so, been unable to obtain an answer to a request for consent.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The court, in considering whether to make an order under subsection (1), is to have regard to all the circumstances of the case including the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 103(3).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-3A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7877" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20838721"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20838721" class="commentary"/>(3A)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7877" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20838721">If the court refuses an application for an order under subsection (1), it may make an order requiring a non-entitled partner who is or becomes the occupier of the family home—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-107-3A-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7877" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20838721">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7877" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20838721">to make such payments to the owner of the home in respect of that partner's occupation of it as may be specified in the order,</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-3A-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p7877" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20838721">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7877" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20838721">to comply with such other conditions relating to that partner's occupation of the family home as may be so specified.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-107-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Where—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-107-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>an application is made for an order under this section, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-107-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>an action is or has been raised by a non-entitled partner to enforce occupancy rights,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>the action is to be sisted until the conclusion of the proceedings on the application.</p></wrapUp></subsection></section><section eId="section-108"><num>108</num><heading><ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="M_F_1d17b8b4-4094-413d-e362-d2a662a482f3-1744198918287" ukl:CommentaryRef="M_F_1d17b8b4-4094-413d-e362-d2a662a482f3"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#M_F_1d17b8b4-4094-413d-e362-d2a662a482f3" class="commentary"/>Interests of creditors</ins></heading><subsection eId="section-108-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>The rights of a third party with an interest in the family home as a creditor under a secured loan in relation to the non-performance of any obligation under the loan are not prejudiced by reason only of the occupancy rights of the non-entitled partner; but where a non-entitled partner has or obtains occupation of a family home and—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-108-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the entitled partner is not in occupation, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-108-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>there is a third party with such an interest in the family home,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>the court may, on the application of the third party, make an order requiring the non-entitled partner to make any payment due by the entitled partner in respect of the loan.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-108-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>This section does not apply to secured loans in respect of which the security was granted prior to the commencement of section 13 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73) unless the third party in granting the secured loan acted in good faith and there was produced to the third party by the entitled partner—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-108-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7957" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602961"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20602961" class="commentary"/>a written declaration signed</ins> by the entitled partner declaring that there is no non-entitled partner, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-108-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a renunciation of occupancy rights or consent to the taking of the loan which bears to have been properly made or given by the non-entitled partner.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-108-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>This section does not apply to secured loans in respect of which the security was granted after the commencement of section 13 of the Law Reform (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Scotland) Act 1985 (c. 73) unless the third party in granting the secured loan acted in good faith and there was produced to the third party by the grantor—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-108-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p7978" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602981"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20602981" class="commentary"/>a written declaration signed</ins> by the grantor declaring that the security subjects are not or were not at the time of the granting of the security a family home in relation to which a civil partner of the grantor has or had occupancy rights, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-108-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a renunciation of occupancy rights or consent to the granting of the security which bears to have been properly made or given by the non-entitled partner.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-108-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>For the purposes of subsections (2) and (3), the time of granting a security, in the case of a heritable security, is the date of delivery of the deed creating the security.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-108-5"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5-1744119494292" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5" class="commentary"/>(5)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5-1744119494292" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5">For the purposes of subsection (3), the time of granting a security, in the case of a statutory pledge, is—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-108-5-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5-1744119494292" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5-1744119494292" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5">the date of delivery of the constitutive document of the statutory pledge, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-108-5-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5-1744119494292" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5-1744119494292" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-307543861f15f30d7f14f6c83d1945c5">where the statutory pledge is granted in an amendment document, the date of delivery of that document.</ins></p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-109"><num>109</num><heading>Provisions where both civil partners have title</heading><subsection eId="section-109-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Subject to subsection (2), where, apart from the provisions of this Chapter, both civil partners are entitled to occupy a family home—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-109-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the rights in that home of one civil partner are not prejudiced by reason only of any dealing of the other civil partner, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-109-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a third party is not by reason only of such a dealing entitled to occupy that home or any part of it.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-109-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Sections 106(3) and 107 and the definition of “dealing” in section 106(2) apply for the purposes of subsection (1) as they apply for the purposes of section 106(1) but subject to the following modifications—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-109-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>any reference to the entitled partner and to the non-entitled partner is to be construed as a reference to a civil partner who has entered into, or as the case may be proposes to enter into, a dealing and to the other civil partner respectively, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-109-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>in paragraph (b) of section 107(4) the reference to occupancy rights is to be construed as a reference to any rights in the family home.</p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-110"><num>110</num><heading>Rights of occupancy in relation to division and sale</heading><intro><p>Where a civil partner brings an action for the division and sale of a family home owned in common with the other civil partner, the court, after having regard to all the circumstances of the case including—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-110-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 103(3), and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-110-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>whether the civil partner bringing the action offers or has offered to make available to the other civil partner any suitable alternative accommodation,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>may refuse to grant decree in that action or may postpone the granting of decree for such period as it considers reasonable in the circumstances or may grant decree subject to such conditions as it may prescribe.</p></wrapUp></section><section eId="section-111"><num>111</num><heading>Adjudication</heading><subsection eId="section-111-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Where a family home as regards which there is an entitled partner and a non-entitled partner is adjudged, the Court of Session, on the application of the non-entitled partner made within 40 days after the date of the decree of adjudication, may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-111-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>order the reduction of the decree, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-111-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>make such order as it thinks appropriate to protect the occupancy rights of the non-entitled partner,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>if satisfied that the purpose of the diligence was wholly or mainly to defeat the occupancy rights of the non-entitled partner.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-111-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Section 106(2) applies in construing “<term refersTo="#term-entitled-partner" eId="term-entitled-partner">entitled partner</term>” and “<term refersTo="#term-non-entitled-partner" eId="term-non-entitled-partner">non-entitled partner</term>” for the purposes of subsection (1).</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-111A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20602991" class="commentary"/>111A</ins></num><heading><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">Effect of court action under section 103, 104 or 105 on reckoning of periods in sections 101 and 106</ins></heading><subsection eId="section-111A-1"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(1)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">Subsection (2) applies where an application is made under section 103(1), 104(1) or 105(1).</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-111A-2"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(2)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">In calculating the period of two years mentioned in section 101(6A)(a) or 106(3)(f), no account shall be taken of the period mentioned in subsection (3).</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-111A-3"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(3)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">The period is the period beginning with the date on which the application is made and—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-111A-3-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(a)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">in the case of an application under section 103(1) or 104(1), ending on the date on which—</ins></p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-111A-3-a-i"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(i)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">an order under section 103(3) or, as the case may be, 104(2) is made, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-111A-3-a-ii"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(ii)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">the application is otherwise finally determined or abandoned,</ins></p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-111A-3-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(b)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">in the case of an application under section 105(1), ending on the date on which—</ins></p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-111A-3-b-i"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(i)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">the order under section 103(3) or, as the case may be, 104(2) is varied or recalled, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-111A-3-b-ii"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">(ii)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8103" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20602991">the application is otherwise finally determined or abandoned.</ins></p></content></level></level></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-3-crossheading-transfer-of-tenancy"><heading><i>Transfer of tenancy</i></heading><section eId="section-112"><num>112</num><heading>Transfer of tenancy</heading><subsection eId="section-112-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The court may, on the application of a non-entitled partner, make an order transferring the tenancy of a family home to that partner and providing, subject to subsection (12), for the payment by the non-entitled partner to the entitled partner of such compensation as seems to it to be just and reasonable in all the circumstances of the case.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In an action—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-112-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>for dissolution of a civil partnership, the Court of Session or the sheriff,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>for declarator of nullity of a civil partnership, the Court of Session,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>may, on granting decree or within such period as the court may specify on granting decree, make an order granting an application under subsection (1).</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In determining whether to grant an application under subsection (1), the court is to have regard to all the circumstances of the case including the matters specified in paragraphs (a) to (e) of section 103(3) and the suitability of the applicant to become the tenant and the applicant’s capacity to perform the obligations under the lease of the family home.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>The non-entitled partner is to serve a copy of an application under subsection (1) on the landlord and, before making an order under subsection (1), the court is to give the landlord an opportunity of being heard by it.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>On the making of an order granting an application under subsection (1), the tenancy vests in the non-entitled partner without intimation to the landlord, subject to all the liabilities under the lease (other than liability for any arrears of rent for the period before the making of the order).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>The arrears mentioned in subsection (5) are to remain the liability of the original entitled partner.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p>The clerk of court is to notify the landlord of the making of an order granting an application under subsection (1).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>It is not competent for a non-entitled partner to apply for an order under subsection (1) where the family home—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-112-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>is let to the entitled partner by the entitled partner’s employer as an incident of employment, and the lease is subject to a requirement that the entitled partner must reside there,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>is or is part of an agricultural holding,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-8-c"><num>(c)</num><intro><p>is on, or pertains to—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-112-8-c-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>a croft,</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-112-8-c-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>the subject of a cottar, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-112-8-c-iii"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>the holding of a landholder or of a statutory small tenant,</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-8-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>is let on a long lease, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-8-e"><num>(e)</num><content><p>is part of the tenancy land of a tenant-at-will.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-9"><num>(9)</num><content><p>In subsection (8)—</p></content></subsection><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-agricultural-holding" eId="term-agricultural-holding">agricultural holding</term>” has the same meaning as in section 1 of the Agricultural Holdings (Scotland) Act 1991 (c. 55),</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-cottar" eId="term-cottar">cottar</term>” has the same meaning as in section 12(5) of the Crofters (Scotland) Act 1993 (c. 44),</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-croft" eId="term-croft">croft</term>” has the same meaning as in that Act of 1993,</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-holding" eId="term-holding">holding</term>”, in relation to a landholder and a statutory small tenant, “<term refersTo="#term-landholder" eId="term-landholder">landholder</term>” and “<term refersTo="#term-statutory-small-tenant" eId="term-statutory-small-tenant">statutory small tenant</term>” have the same meanings respectively as in sections 2(1), 2(2) and 32(1) of the Small Landholders (Scotland) Act 1911 (c. 49),</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-long-lease" eId="term-long-lease">long lease</term>” has the same meaning as in section <ins class="substitution first" ukl:ChangeId="key-f63b4513f1d722aa0eb6bdf4086c71e0-1563457044096" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-f63b4513f1d722aa0eb6bdf4086c71e0"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-f63b4513f1d722aa0eb6bdf4086c71e0" class="commentary"/>9(2) of the Land Registration </ins><abbr title="et cetera" xml:lang="la"><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="key-f63b4513f1d722aa0eb6bdf4086c71e0-1563457044096" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-f63b4513f1d722aa0eb6bdf4086c71e0">etc.</ins></abbr><ins class="substitution last" ukl:ChangeId="key-f63b4513f1d722aa0eb6bdf4086c71e0-1563457044096" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-f63b4513f1d722aa0eb6bdf4086c71e0"> (Scotland) Act 2012 (asp 5)</ins>, and</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-tenant-at-will" eId="term-tenant-at-will">tenant-at-will</term>” has the same meaning as in section 20(8) of that Act of 1979.</p></content></hcontainer><subsection eId="section-112-10"><num>(10)</num><content><p>Where both civil partners are joint or common tenants of a family home, the court may, on the application of one of the civil partners, make an order vesting the tenancy in that civil partner solely and providing, subject to subsection (12), for the payment by the applicant to the other partner of such compensation as seems just and reasonable in the circumstances of the case.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-11"><num>(11)</num><intro><p>Subsections (2) to (9) apply for the purposes of an order under subsection (10) as they apply for the purposes of an order under subsection (1) but subject to the following modifications—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-112-11-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p><mod>in subsection (3), for “tenant” there is substituted <quotedText>“ sole tenant ”</quotedText>;</mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-11-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><mod>in subsection (4), for “non-entitled” there is substituted <quotedText>“ applicant ”</quotedText>;</mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-11-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p><mod>in subsection (5), for “non-entitled” there is substituted <quotedText>“ applicant ”</quotedText>,</mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-11-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p><mod>in subsection (6), for “liability of the original entitled partner” there is substituted <quotedText>“ joint and several liability of both partners ”</quotedText>;</mod></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-112-11-e"><num>(e)</num><intro><p>in subsection (8)—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-112-11-e-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p><mod>for “a non-entitled” there is substituted <quotedText>“ an applicant ”</quotedText>,</mod></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-112-11-e-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p><mod>for paragraph (a) there is substituted—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="unknown" uk:docName="unknown" ukl:TargetClass="unknown" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="unknown" ukl:Format="default"><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>is let to both partners by their employer as an incident of employment, and the lease is subject to a requirement that both partners must reside there;</p></content></level></quotedStructure><inline name="appendText">, and</inline></mod></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-112-11-e-iii"><num>(iii)</num><content><p>paragraphs (c) and (e) are omitted.</p></content></level></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-112-12"><num>(12)</num><content><p>Where the family home is a Scottish secure tenancy within the meaning of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 10), no account is to be taken, in assessing the amount of any compensation to be awarded under subsection (1) or (10), of the loss, by virtue of the transfer of the tenancy of the home, of a right to purchase the home under Part 3 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987 (c. 26).</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer></chapter><chapter eId="part-3-chapter-4"><num>Chapter 4</num><heading>Interdicts</heading><section eId="section-113"><num>113</num><heading>Civil partners: competency of interdict</heading><subsection eId="section-113-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>It shall not be incompetent for the Court of Session or the sheriff to entertain an application by one civil partner in a civil partnership for a relevant interdict by reason only that the civil partners are living together in civil partnership.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-113-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In subsection (1) <noteRef href="#c20603011" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . , “<term refersTo="#term-relevant-interdict" eId="term-relevant-interdict">relevant interdict</term>” means an interdict, including an interim interdict, which—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-113-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>restrains or prohibits any conduct of one civil partner towards the other civil partner or a child of the family, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-113-2-b"><num><ins class="substitution first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20603021" class="commentary"/>(b)</ins></num><intro><p><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">subject to subsection (3), prohibits a civil partner from entering or remaining in—</ins></p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-113-2-b-i"><num><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">(i)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">a family home,</ins></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-113-2-b-ii"><num><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">(ii)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">any other residence occupied by the applicant civil partner,</ins></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-113-2-b-iii"><num><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">(iii)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">any place of work of the applicant civil partner,</ins></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-113-2-b-iv"><num><ins class="substitution" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">(iv)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="substitution last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8479" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603021">any school attended by a child in the permanent or temporary care of the applicant civil partner</ins></p></content></level></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-113-3"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20603041" class="commentary"/>(3)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">Subsection (4) applies if in relation to a family home the non-applicant civil partner—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-113-3-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">is an entitled partner, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-113-3-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">has occupancy rights.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-113-4"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">(4)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">Except where subsection (5) applies, the court may not grant a relevant interdict prohibiting the non-applicant civil partner from entering or remaining in the family home.</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-113-5"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">(5)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">This subsection applies if—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-113-5-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">the interdict is ancillary to an exclusion order, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-113-5-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">by virtue of section 101(4), the court refuses leave to exercise occupancy rights.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-113-6"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">(6)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">In this section </ins><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041"><noteRef href="#c20603081" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . , “</ins><term refersTo="#term-applicant-civil-partner" eId="term-applicant-civil-partner"><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">applicant civil partner</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">” means the civil partner who has applied for the interdict; and “</ins><term refersTo="#term-non-applicant-civil-partner" eId="term-non-applicant-civil-partner"><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">non-applicant civil partner</ins></term><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8511" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20603041">” is to be construed accordingly.</ins></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-114"><num>114</num><heading>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</heading><content><p><noteRef href="#c20604741" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></section><section eId="section-115"><num>115</num><heading>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</heading><content><p><noteRef href="#c20604921" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></section><section eId="section-116"><num>116</num><heading>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</heading><content><p><noteRef href="#c20604961" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></section></chapter><chapter eId="part-3-chapter-5"><num>Chapter 5</num><heading>Dissolution, separation and nullity</heading><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-5-crossheading-dissolution-and-separation"><heading><i>Dissolution and separation</i></heading><section eId="section-117"><num>117</num><heading>Dissolution</heading><subsection eId="section-117-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>An action for the dissolution of a civil partnership may be brought in the Court of Session or in the sheriff court.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>In such an action the court may grant decree, if, but only if, it is established that—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-117-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the civil partnership has broken down irretrievably, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-117-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-589c32c3746f5944866db6dd83d03200-1643278716551" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-589c32c3746f5944866db6dd83d03200"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-589c32c3746f5944866db6dd83d03200" class="commentary"/>subject to subsection (3A),</ins> an interim gender recognition certificate under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c. 7) has, after the date of registration of the civil partnership, been issued to either of the civil partners.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>The irretrievable breakdown of a civil partnership is taken to be established if—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-117-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>since the date of registration of the civil partnership the defender has at any time behaved (whether or not as a result of mental abnormality and whether such behaviour has been active or passive) in such a way that the pursuer cannot reasonably be expected to cohabit with the defender,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-117-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p><noteRef href="#c20604971" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-117-3-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>there has been no cohabitation between the civil partners at any time during a continuous period of <ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8670" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20604981"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20604981" class="commentary"/>one year</ins> after the date of registration of the civil partnership and immediately preceding the bringing of the action and the defender consents to the granting of decree of dissolution of the civil partnership, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-117-3-d"><num>(d)</num><content><p>there has been no cohabitation between the civil partners at any time during a continuous period of <ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8680" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20605001"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20605001" class="commentary"/>two</ins> years after that date and immediately preceding the bringing of the action.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-3A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e-1643278746232" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e" class="commentary"/>(3A)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e-1643278746232" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e">Subsection (2)(b)—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-117-3A-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e-1643278746232" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e-1643278746232" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e">does not apply where, under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, a Gender Recognition Panel issues a full gender recognition certificate to the person to whom the interim gender recognition certificate was issued, but</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-117-3A-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e-1643278746232" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e-1643278746232" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-99cb4b1fd71f8a6f4727174cf643269e">continues to apply despite a full gender recognition certificate being issued to that person by the sheriff under section 4E of that Act.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>Provision is to be made by act of sederunt—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-117-4-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>for the purpose of ensuring that, in an action to which paragraph (c) of subsection (3) relates, the defender has been given such information as enables that civil partner to understand—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-117-4-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the consequences of consenting to the granting of decree, and</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-117-4-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>the steps which must be taken to indicate such consent, and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-117-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>as to the manner in which the defender in such an action is to indicate such consent, and any withdrawal of such consent,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>and where the defender has indicated (and not withdrawn) such consent in the prescribed manner, that indication is sufficient evidence of such consent.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>Provision is to be made by act of sederunt for the purpose of ensuring that, where in an action for the dissolution of a civil partnership the defender is suffering from mental illness, the court appoints a curator ad litem to the defender.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p><noteRef href="#c20605081" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-7"><num>(7)</num><content><p><noteRef href="#c20605091" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-117-8"><num>(8)</num><content><p>In an action for dissolution of a civil partnership the standard of proof required to establish the ground of action is on balance of probability.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-118"><num>118</num><heading>Encouragement of reconciliation</heading><subsection eId="section-118-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>At any time before granting decree in an action by virtue of paragraph (a) of section 117(2) for dissolution of a civil partnership, if it appears to the court that there is a reasonable prospect of a reconciliation between the civil partners it must continue, or further continue, the action for such period as it thinks proper to enable attempts to be made to effect such a reconciliation.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-118-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>If during any such continuation the civil partners cohabit with one another, no account is to be taken of such cohabitation for the purposes of that action.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-119"><num>119</num><heading>Effect of resumption of cohabitation</heading><subsection eId="section-119-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p><noteRef href="#c20605131" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-119-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p><noteRef href="#c20605151" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-119-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In considering whether any period mentioned in paragraph <noteRef href="#c20605161" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . , (c) or (d) of section 117(3) has been continuous, no account is to be taken of any period or periods not exceeding 6 months in all during which the civil partners cohabited with one another; but no such period or periods during which the civil partners cohabited with one another is to count as part of the period of non-cohabitation required by any of those paragraphs.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-120"><num>120</num><heading>Separation</heading><subsection eId="section-120-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>An action for the separation of the civil partners in a civil partnership may be brought in the Court of Session or in the sheriff court.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-120-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>In such an action the court may grant decree if satisfied that the circumstances set out in any of paragraphs (a) to (d) of section 117(3) are established.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-121"><num>121</num><heading>Dissolution following on decree of separation</heading><subsection eId="section-121-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The court may grant decree in an action for the dissolution of a civil partnership even though decree of separation has previously been granted to the pursuer on the same, or substantially the same, facts as those averred in support of that action; and in any such action the court may treat an extract decree of separation lodged in process as sufficient proof of the facts under which that decree was granted.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-121-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Nothing in this section entitles a court to grant decree of dissolution of a civil partnership without receiving evidence from the pursuer.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-121A"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d" class="commentary"/>121A</ins></num><heading><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">Postponement of decree of dissolution where religious impediment to marry exists</ins></heading><subsection eId="section-121A-1"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(1)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">Notwithstanding that irretrievable breakdown of a civil partnership has been established in an action for dissolution, the court may—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-121A-1-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">on the application of a party (“</ins><term refersTo="#term-the-applicant"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">the applicant</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">”), and</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-121A-1-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(b)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">if satisfied—</ins></p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-121A-1-b-i"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(i)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">that subsection (2) applies, and</ins></p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-121A-1-b-ii"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(ii)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">that it is just and reasonable to do so,</ins></p></content></level></level><wrapUp><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">postpone the grant of decree in the action until it is satisfied that the other party has complied with subsection (3).</ins></p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-121A-2"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(2)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">This subsection applies where—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-121A-2-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">the applicant is prevented from entering into a religious marriage by virtue of a requirement of the religion of that marriage, and </ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-121A-2-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">the other party can act so as to remove, or enable or contribute to the removal of, the impediment which prevents that marriage.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-121A-3"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(3)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">A party complies with this subsection by acting in the way described in subsection (2)(b).</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-121A-4"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(4)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">The court may, whether or not on the application of a party and notwithstanding that subsection (2) applies, recall a postponement under subsection (1).</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-121A-5"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(5)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">The court may, before recalling a postponement under subsection (1), order the other party to produce a certificate from the relevant religious body confirming that the other party has acted in the way described in subsection (2)(b).</ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-121A-6"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(6)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">For the purposes of subsection (5), a religious body is “relevant” if the applicant considers the body competent to provide the confirmation referred to in that subsection. </ins></p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-121A-7"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(7)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">In this section—</ins></p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">“</ins><term refersTo="#term-religious-marriage"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">religious marriage</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">” means a marriage solemnised by a marriage celebrant of a specified religious body, and “</ins><term refersTo="#term-religion-of-that-marriage"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">religion of that marriage</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">” is to be construed accordingly,</ins></p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">“</ins><term refersTo="#term-specified"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">specified</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">” means specified by regulations made by the Scottish Ministers.</ins></p></content></hcontainer></subsection><subsection eId="section-121A-8"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(8)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">Any reference in this section to a marriage celebrant of a specified religious body is a reference to—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-121A-8-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">a minister, clergyman, pastor or priest of such a body,</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-121A-8-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">a person who has, on the nomination of such a body, been registered under section 9 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 as empowered to solemnise marriages,</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-121A-8-c"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">(c)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d-1636645269538" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-099480d663569e147f41adc75a08437d">any person who is recognised by such a body as entitled to solemnise marriages on its behalf.</ins></p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-122"><num>122</num><heading><ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-9f1b123954625cf2f1d0cf1ffaa2c6a6-1704208285818" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-9f1b123954625cf2f1d0cf1ffaa2c6a6"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-9f1b123954625cf2f1d0cf1ffaa2c6a6" class="commentary"/>Registration of dissolutions and declarators of nullity of civil partnerships</ins></heading><subsection eId="section-122-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>The Registrar General is to maintain at the General Register Office a register of decrees of dissolution <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-550e35350bee415a400616753342a4ae-1704208314410" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-550e35350bee415a400616753342a4ae"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-550e35350bee415a400616753342a4ae" class="commentary"/>and of declarator of nullity</ins> of civil partnership (a register which shall be known as the “<term refersTo="#term-register-of-dissolutions-of-civil-partnership" eId="term-register-of-dissolutions-of-civil-partnership">Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership</term>”).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-122-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>The Registrar General is to cause to be made and kept at the General Register Office an alphabetical index of the entries in that register.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-122-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>The register is to be in such form as may be prescribed.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-122-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>On payment to him of such fee or fees as may be prescribed, the Registrar General must, at any time when the General Register Office is open for that purpose—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-122-4-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>cause a search of the index to be made on behalf of any person or permit any person to search the index himself,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-122-4-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>issue to any person an extract of any entry in the register which that person may require.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-122-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>An extract of any entry in the register is to be sufficient evidence of the decree of dissolution <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-4cfe75382251ade119c529d62bd26c39-1704208335136" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-4cfe75382251ade119c529d62bd26c39"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-4cfe75382251ade119c529d62bd26c39" class="commentary"/>or, as the case may be, of the declarator of nullity of civil partnership</ins> to which it relates.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-122-6"><num>(6)</num><intro><p>The Registrar General may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-122-6-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>delete,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-122-6-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>amend, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-122-6-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>substitute another entry for,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>any entry in the register.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-122-7"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8912" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20605241"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20605241" class="commentary"/>(7)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8912" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20605241">Section 39C of the 1965 Act applies in relation to the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership as it applies in relation to the Register of Divorces.</ins></p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-5-crossheading-nullity"><heading><i>Nullity</i></heading><section eId="section-123"><num>123</num><heading>Nullity</heading><subsection eId="section-123-1"><num><ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8935" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20605851"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20605851" class="commentary"/>(1)</ins></num><intro><p>Where two people register in Scotland as civil partners of each other, the civil partnership is void if, and only if—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-123-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>they were not eligible to do so, <noteRef href="#c20606281" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . </p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-123-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>though they were so eligible, either of them did not <noteRef href="#c20607441" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . consent to its formation <ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8958" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607511"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20607511" class="commentary"/>, or.</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-123-1-c"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8958" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607511">(c)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8958" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607511">at the time of registration one of them who was capable of consenting to the formation of the civil partnership purported to give consent but did so by reason only of duress or error.</ins></p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-123-2"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20607531" class="commentary"/>(2)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531">In this section “</ins><term refersTo="#term-error" eId="term-error"><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531">error</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531">” means—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-123-2-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531">error as to the nature of civil partnership, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-123-2-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p8967" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607531">a mistaken belief held by a person (“A”) that the other person with whom A purported to register a civil partnership was the person with whom A had agreed to register a civil partnership.</ins></p></content></level></subsection></section><section eId="section-124"><num>124</num><heading>Validity of civil partnerships registered outside Scotland</heading><subsection eId="section-124-1"><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Where two people register as civil partners of each other in England and Wales—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-124-1-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the civil partnership is void if it would be void in England and Wales under section 49, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-1-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>the civil partnership is voidable if it would be voidable there under section 50(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-2"><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Where two people register as civil partners of each other in Northern Ireland, the civil partnership is—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-124-2-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>void, if it would be void in Northern Ireland under section 173, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-2-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>voidable, if it would be voidable there under section 174(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-3"><num>(3)</num><intro><p>Subsection (4) applies where two people register as civil partners of each other under an Order in Council under—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-124-3-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>section 210 (registration at British consulates <abbr title="et cetera" xml:lang="la">etc.</abbr>), or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-3-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>section 211 (registration by armed forces personnel),</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>(“the relevant section”).</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-4"><num>(4)</num><intro><p>The civil partnership is—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-124-4-a"><num>(a)</num><intro><p>void, if—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-124-4-a-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the condition in subsection (2)(a) or (b) of the relevant section is not met, or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-124-4-a-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>a requirement prescribed for the purposes of this paragraph by an Order in Council under the relevant section is not complied with, and</p></content></level></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-4-b"><num>(b)</num><intro><p>voidable, if—</p></intro><level class="para2" eId="section-124-4-b-i"><num>(i)</num><content><p>the appropriate part of the United Kingdom is England and Wales and the circumstances fall within section 50(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e), or</p></content></level><level class="para2" eId="section-124-4-b-ii"><num>(ii)</num><content><p>the appropriate part of the United Kingdom is Northern Ireland and the circumstances fall within section 174(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e).</p></content></level></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p>The appropriate part of the United Kingdom is the part by reference to which the condition in subsection (2)(b) of the relevant section is met.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-6"><num>(6)</num><content><p>Subsections (7) and (8) apply where two people have registered an apparent or alleged overseas relationship.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-7"><num>(7)</num><intro><p>The civil partnership is void if—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-124-7-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the relationship is not an overseas relationship, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-7-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>(even though the relationship is an overseas relationship), the parties are not treated under Chapter 2 of Part 5 as having formed a civil partnership.</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-8"><num>(8)</num><intro><p>The civil partnership is voidable if—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-124-8-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>the overseas relationship is voidable under the relevant law,</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-8-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>where either of the parties was domiciled in England and Wales at the time when the overseas relationship was registered, the circumstances fall within section 50(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e), or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-8-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>where either of the parties was domiciled in Northern Ireland at the time when the overseas relationship was registered, the circumstances fall within section 174(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-9"><num>(9)</num><intro><p>Section 51 or (as the case may be) section 175 applies for the purposes of—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-124-9-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>subsections (1)(b), (2)(b) and (4)(b),</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-9-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>subsection (8)(a), in so far as applicable in accordance with the relevant law, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-124-9-c"><num>(c)</num><content><p>subsection (8)(b) and (c).</p></content></level></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-10"><num>(10)</num><content><p>In subsections (8)(a) and (9)(b) “<term refersTo="#term-the-relevant-law" eId="term-the-relevant-law">the relevant law</term>” means the law of the country or territory where the overseas relationship was registered (including its rules of private international law).</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-124-11"><num>(11)</num><content><p>For the purposes of subsections (8) and (9)(b) and (c), references in sections 50 and 51 or (as the case may be) sections 174 and 175 to the formation of the civil partnership are to be read as references to the registration of the overseas relationship.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-5-crossheading-special-destinations-revocation-on-dissolution-or-annulment"><heading><i><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p9189" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607551"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20607551" class="commentary"/>Special destinations: revocation on dissolution or annulment</ins></i></heading><section eId="section-124A"><num><noteRef href="#key-a9c2d8884339879d99a617411cfaeb17" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p9189" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607551">124A</ins></num><heading><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p9189" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607551">Special destination: revocation on dissolution or annulment</ins></heading><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p9189" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20607551">. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</ins></p></content></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-5-crossheading-financial-provision-after-overseas-proceedings"><heading><i>Financial provision after overseas proceedings</i></heading><section eId="section-125"><num>125</num><heading>Financial provision after overseas dissolution or annulment</heading><content><p>Schedule 11 relates to applications for financial provision in Scotland after a civil partnership has been dissolved or annulled in a country or territory outside the British Islands.</p></content></section></hcontainer></chapter><chapter eId="part-3-chapter-6"><num>Chapter 6</num><heading>Miscellaneous and interpretation</heading><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-6-crossheading-miscellaneous"><heading><i>Miscellaneous</i></heading><section eId="section-126"><num>126</num><heading>Regulations</heading><subsection eId="section-126-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>In this Chapter and in Chapters 2 <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-0b8b81a6b973f8ce7401d378245f2c78-1565245454221" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-0b8b81a6b973f8ce7401d378245f2c78"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-0b8b81a6b973f8ce7401d378245f2c78" class="commentary"/>(except in section 88F)</ins> and 5, “<term refersTo="#term-prescribed" eId="term-prescribed">prescribed</term>” means prescribed by regulations made by the Registrar General.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-126-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Regulations so made may make provision (including provision as to fees) supplementing, in respect of the provision of services by or on behalf of the Registrar General or by local registration authorities (as defined by section 5(3) of the 1965 Act), the provisions of Chapter 2 of this Part.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-126-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>Any power to make regulations under subsection (1) or (2) is exercisable by statutory instrument; and no such regulations are to be made except with the approval of the Scottish Ministers.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-126-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>A statutory instrument containing regulations under subsection (1) or (2), or regulations under section <ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-d1f309852ce64e12069c710a98ce57fe-1565102697184" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-d1f309852ce64e12069c710a98ce57fe"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-d1f309852ce64e12069c710a98ce57fe" class="commentary"/>94A(1)(a)(i) </ins><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-d1f309852ce64e12069c710a98ce57fe-1565102697184" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-d1f309852ce64e12069c710a98ce57fe"><ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-502d3b5cd5925050bd3422981da1d297-1636620002806" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-502d3b5cd5925050bd3422981da1d297"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-502d3b5cd5925050bd3422981da1d297" class="commentary"/>, (2A)(a)(i)</ins></ins><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-d1f309852ce64e12069c710a98ce57fe-1565102697184" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-d1f309852ce64e12069c710a98ce57fe"> or (5), 94B(3), 94E(4)</ins> <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-ee32574bd6a7e3564d7cef4f65c1bf8e-1637005217584" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-ee32574bd6a7e3564d7cef4f65c1bf8e"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-ee32574bd6a7e3564d7cef4f65c1bf8e" class="commentary"/>, 106(3)(a)(i) or 121A(7)</ins>, is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of the Scottish Parliament.</p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-127"><num>127</num><heading>Attachment</heading><intro><p>Where an attachment has been executed of furniture and plenishings of which the debtor’s civil partner has the possession or use by virtue of an order under section 103(3) or (4), the sheriff, on the application of that civil partner made within 40 days after the execution of the attachment, may—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-127-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>declare the attachment null, or</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-127-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>make such order as he thinks appropriate to protect such possession or use by that civil partner,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>if satisfied that the purpose of the attachment was wholly or mainly to prevent such possession or use.</p></wrapUp></section><section eId="section-128"><num>128</num><heading>Promise or agreement to enter into civil partnership</heading><content><p>No promise or agreement to enter into civil partnership creates any rights or obligations under the law of Scotland; and no action for breach of such a promise or agreement may be brought in any court in Scotland, whatever the law applicable to the promise or agreement.</p></content></section><section eId="section-129"><num>129</num><heading>Lord Advocate as party to action for nullity or dissolution of civil partnership</heading><content><p><noteRef href="#c20607621" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></section><section eId="section-130"><num>130</num><heading>Civil partner of accused a competent witness</heading><content><p><noteRef href="#c21545311" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .</p></content></section><section eId="section-131"><num>131</num><heading>Succession: legal rights arising by virtue of civil partnership</heading><subsection eId="section-131-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Where a person dies survived by a civil partner then, unless the circumstance is as mentioned in subsection (2), the civil partner has right to half of the moveable net estate belonging to the deceased at the time of death.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-131-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>That circumstance is that the person is also survived by issue, in which case the civil partner has right to a third of that moveable net estate and those issue have right to another third of it.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-131-3"><num>(3)</num><content><p>In this section—</p></content></subsection><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-issue" eId="term-issue">issue</term>” means issue however remote, and</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-net-estate" eId="term-net-estate">net estate</term>” has the meaning given by section 36(1) (interpretation) of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 (c. 41).</p></content></hcontainer><subsection eId="section-131-4"><num>(4)</num><content><p>Every testamentary disposition executed after the commencement of this section by which provision is made in favour of the civil partner of the testator and which does not contain a declaration to the effect that the provision so made is in full and final satisfaction of the right to any share in the testator’s estate to which the civil partner is entitled by virtue of subsection (1) or (2), has effect (unless the disposition contains an express provision to the contrary) as if it contained such a declaration.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-131-5"><num>(5)</num><content><p><mod>In section 36(1) of the Succession (Scotland) Act 1964 (c. 41), in the definition of “legal rights”, for “and legitim” substitute <quotedText>“ legitim and rights under section 131 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></subsection></section><section eId="section-132"><num>132</num><heading>Assurance policies</heading><intro><p>Section 2 of the Married Women’s Policies of Assurance (Scotland) Act 1880 (c. 26) (which provides that a policy of assurance may be effected in trust for a person’s spouse, children or spouse and children) applies in relation to a policy of assurance—</p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-132-a"><num>(a)</num><content><p>effected by a civil partner (in this section referred to as “<term refersTo="#term-a" eId="term-a">A</term>”) on A’s own life, and</p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-132-b"><num>(b)</num><content><p>expressed upon the face of it to be for the benefit of A’s civil partner, or of A’s children, or of A’s civil partner and children,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>as it applies in relation to a policy of assurance effected as, and expressed upon the face of it to be for such benefit as, is mentioned in that section.</p></wrapUp></section><section eId="section-133"><num>133</num><heading>Council Tax: liability of civil partners</heading><content><p><mod>After section 77 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992 (c. 14), insert—<quotedStructure startQuote="&#x201C;" endQuote="&#x201D;" uk:context="body" uk:docName="ukpga" ukl:TargetClass="primary" ukl:TargetSubClass="unknown" ukl:Context="main" ukl:Format="default"><section><num>77A</num><heading>Liability of civil partners</heading><subsection><num>(1)</num><intro><p>Where—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>a person who is liable to pay council tax in respect of any chargeable dwelling and any day is in civil partnership with another person or living with another person in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between civil partners; and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>that other person is also a resident of the dwelling on that day but would not, apart from this section, be so liable,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>those persons shall be jointly and severally liable to pay the council tax payable in respect of that dwelling and that day.</p></wrapUp></subsection><subsection><num>(2)</num><intro><p>Subsection (1) above shall not apply as respects any day on which the other person there mentioned falls to be disregarded for the purposes of discount—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>by virtue of paragraph 2 of Schedule 1 to this Act (the severely mentally impaired); or</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>being a student, by virtue of paragraph 4 of that Schedule.</p></content></level></subsection></section></quotedStructure></mod></p></content></section><section eId="section-134"><num>134</num><heading>General provisions as to fees</heading><subsection eId="section-134-1"><num>(1)</num><content><p>Subject to such exceptions as may be prescribed, a district registrar may refuse to comply with any application voluntarily made to him under this Part until the appropriate fee, if any, provided for by or under this Part is paid to him; and any such fee, if not prepaid, is recoverable by the registrar to whom it is payable.</p></content></subsection><subsection eId="section-134-2"><num>(2)</num><content><p>Circumstances, of hardship or otherwise, may be prescribed in which fees provided for by or under this Part may be remitted by the Registrar General.</p></content></subsection></section></hcontainer><hcontainer name="crossheading" ukl:Name="Pblock" eId="part-3-chapter-6-crossheading-interpretation"><heading><i>Interpretation</i></heading><section eId="section-135"><num>135</num><heading>Interpretation of this Part</heading><subsection eId="section-135-1"><num><ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p9557" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20608121"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20608121" class="commentary"/>(1)</ins></num><intro><p>In this Part, unless the context otherwise requires—</p></intro><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-the-1965-act" eId="term-the-1965-act">the 1965 Act</term>” means the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p> <ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-2b76098e3fce8b37fcda6f3f758f3744-1565274781426" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-2b76098e3fce8b37fcda6f3f758f3744"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-2b76098e3fce8b37fcda6f3f758f3744" class="commentary"/>“</ins><abbr title="Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 asp 5"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-2b76098e3fce8b37fcda6f3f758f3744-1565274781426" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-2b76098e3fce8b37fcda6f3f758f3744">2014 Act</ins></abbr><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-2b76098e3fce8b37fcda6f3f758f3744-1565274781426" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-2b76098e3fce8b37fcda6f3f758f3744">” means the Immigration Act 2014;</ins> </p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p> <ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-49bcbc2a4b2182839ac08ec1882afea5-1565139284932" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-49bcbc2a4b2182839ac08ec1882afea5"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-49bcbc2a4b2182839ac08ec1882afea5" class="commentary"/>“</ins><term refersTo="#term-approved-celebrant"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-49bcbc2a4b2182839ac08ec1882afea5-1565139284932" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-49bcbc2a4b2182839ac08ec1882afea5">approved celebrant</ins></term><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-49bcbc2a4b2182839ac08ec1882afea5-1565139284932" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-49bcbc2a4b2182839ac08ec1882afea5">” has the meaning given by section 94A(4)(a);</ins> </p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-authorised-registrar" eId="term-authorised-registrar">authorised registrar</term>” has the meaning given by section 87;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-caravan" eId="term-caravan">caravan</term>” means a caravan which is mobile or affixed to land;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-child-of-the-family" eId="term-child-of-the-family">child of the family</term>” has the meaning given by section 101(7);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-civil-partnership-book" eId="term-civil-partnership-book">civil partnership book</term>” has the meaning given by section 89;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-civil-partnership-schedule" eId="term-civil-partnership-schedule">civil partnership schedule</term>” has the meaning given by section 94;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p> <ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-a60f437d513fac8d81b803525c0c40e6-1565139361653" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-a60f437d513fac8d81b803525c0c40e6"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-a60f437d513fac8d81b803525c0c40e6" class="commentary"/>“</ins><term refersTo="#term-civil-registration"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-a60f437d513fac8d81b803525c0c40e6-1565139361653" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-a60f437d513fac8d81b803525c0c40e6">civil registration</ins></term><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-a60f437d513fac8d81b803525c0c40e6-1565139361653" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-a60f437d513fac8d81b803525c0c40e6">” has the meaning given by section 94A(4)(c);</ins> </p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-civil-partnership-register" eId="term-civil-partnership-register">civil partnership register</term>” has the meaning given by section 95(2);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-the-court" eId="term-the-court">the court</term>” means the Court of Session or the sheriff;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-district" eId="term-district">district</term>” means a registration district as defined by section 5(1) of the 1965 Act;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-district-registrar" eId="term-district-registrar">district registrar</term>” has the meaning given by section 7(12) of the 1965 Act;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-entitled-partner" eId="term-entitled-partner">entitled partner</term>” and “<term refersTo="#term-non-entitled-partner" eId="term-non-entitled-partner">non-entitled partner</term>”, subject to sections 106(2) and 111(2), have the meanings respectively assigned to them by section 101(1);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-exclusion-order" eId="term-exclusion-order">exclusion order</term>” has the meaning given by section 104(1);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-family" eId="term-family">family</term>” has the meaning given by section 101(7);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-family-home" eId="term-family-home">family home</term>” means <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p9667" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20608681"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20608681" class="commentary"/>, subject to subsection (2),</ins> any house, caravan, houseboat or other structure which has been provided or has been made available by one or both of the civil partners as, or has become, a family residence and includes any garden or other ground or building <noteRef href="#c20607661" uk:name="commentary" ukl:Name="CommentaryRef" class="commentary"/>. . . usually occupied with, or otherwise required for the amenity or convenience of, the house, caravan, houseboat or other structure but does not include a residence provided or made available by <ins class="substitution first last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p9673" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20608821"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20608821" class="commentary"/>a person for one</ins> civil partner to reside in, whether with any child of the family or not, separately from the other civil partner;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“<term refersTo="#term-furniture-and-plenishings" eId="term-furniture-and-plenishings">furniture and plenishings</term>” means any article situated in a family home of civil partners which—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>is owned or hired by either civil partner or is being acquired by either civil partner under a hire-purchase agreement or conditional sale agreement, and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>is reasonably necessary to enable the home to be used as a family residence,</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>but does not include any vehicle, caravan or houseboat or such other structure as is mentioned in the definition of “family home”;</p></wrapUp></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-notice-of-proposed-civil-partnership" eId="term-notice-of-proposed-civil-partnership">notice of proposed civil partnership</term>” has the meaning given by section 88(1);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-occupancy-rights" eId="term-occupancy-rights">occupancy rights</term>” means the rights conferred by section 101(1);</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-registrar-general" eId="term-registrar-general">Registrar General</term>” means the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p>“<term refersTo="#term-registration-office" eId="term-registration-office">registration office</term>” means a registration office provided under section 8(1) of the 1965 Act;</p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p> <ins class="first last" ukl:ChangeId="key-c6ec1693fb6f5b1af55256502cf9df4d-1565274808286" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-c6ec1693fb6f5b1af55256502cf9df4d"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-c6ec1693fb6f5b1af55256502cf9df4d" class="commentary"/>“relevant national” has the same meaning as in section 30A;</ins> </p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p> <ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139446315" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7" class="commentary"/>“</ins><term refersTo="#term-religious-or-belief-body"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139446315" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7">religious or belief body</ins></term><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139446315" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7">” means an organised group of people— </ins></p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139446315" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7">which meets regularly for religious worship, or</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139446315" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7">the principal object (or one of the principal objects) of which is to uphold or promote philosophical beliefs and which meets regularly for that purpose;</ins></p></content></level></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><content><p> <ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139539690" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7" class="commentary"/>“</ins><term refersTo="#term-religious-or-belief-civil-partnership"><ins ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139539690" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7">religious or belief civil partnership</ins></term><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7-1565139539690" ukl:CommentaryRef="key-62fd97d0af67fb1f5779e05e63031ad7">” has the meaning given by section 94A(4)(b);</ins> </p></content></hcontainer><hcontainer name="definition"><intro><p>“<term refersTo="#term-tenant" eId="term-tenant">tenant</term>” includes—</p></intro><level class="para1"><num>(a)</num><content><p>a sub-tenant,</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(b)</num><content><p>a statutory tenant as defined in section 3 of the Rent (Scotland) Act 1984 (c. 58), and</p></content></level><level class="para1"><num>(c)</num><content><p>a statutory assured tenant as defined in section 16(1) of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1988 (c. 43),</p></content></level><wrapUp><p>and “<term refersTo="#term-tenancy" eId="term-tenancy">tenancy</term>” is to be construed accordingly.</p></wrapUp></hcontainer></subsection><subsection eId="section-135-2"><num><ins class="first" ukl:ChangeId="d29p9750" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20609001"><noteRef uk:name="commentary" href="#c20609001" class="commentary"/>(2)</ins></num><intro><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p9750" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20609001">If—</ins></p></intro><level class="para1" eId="section-135-2-a"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p9750" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20609001">(a)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p9750" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20609001">the tenancy of a family home is transferred from one civil partner to the other by agreement or under any enactment, and</ins></p></content></level><level class="para1" eId="section-135-2-b"><num><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p9750" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20609001">(b)</ins></num><content><p><ins ukl:ChangeId="d29p9750" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20609001">following the transfer, the civil partner to whom the tenancy was transferred occupies the home but the other civil partner does not,</ins></p></content></level><wrapUp><p><ins class="last" ukl:ChangeId="d29p9750" ukl:CommentaryRef="c20609001">the home shall, on such transfer, cease to be a family home.</ins></p></wrapUp></subsection></section><section eId="section-136"><num>136</num><heading>The expression “relative” in the 1965 Act</heading><content><p><mod>In section 56(1) of the 1965 Act (interpretation), in the definition of “relative”, at the end insert <quotedText>“ , a civil partner and anyone related to the civil partner of the person as regards whom the expression is being construed ”</quotedText>.</mod></p></content></section></hcontainer></chapter></part>