236 Refusal of recognition
Civil Partnership Act 2004 (2004 c 33) | Legislation

236  Refusal of recognition

(1)     Recognition of the validity of an overseas dissolution, annulment or legal separation may be refused in any part of the United Kingdom if the dissolution, annulment or separation was obtained at a time when it was irreconcilable with a decision determining the question of the subsistence or validity of the civil partnership—

(a)     previously given by a court of civil jurisdiction in that part of the United Kingdom, or

(b)     previously given by a court elsewhere and recognised or entitled to be recognised in that part of the United Kingdom.

(2)     Recognition

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