237 Supplementary provisions relating to recognition of dissolution etc
Civil Partnership Act 2004 (2004 c 33) | Legislation

237  Supplementary provisions relating to recognition of dissolution etc

(1)     For the purposes of sections 235 and 236, a civil partner is to be treated as domiciled in a country if he was domiciled in that country—

(a)     according to the law of that country in family matters, or

(b)     according to the law of the part of the United Kingdom in which the question of recognition arises.

(2)     The Lord Chancellor[, the Department of Justice in Northern Ireland] or the Scottish Ministers may by regulations make provision—

(a)     applying sections 235 and 236 and subsection (1) with modifications in relation to any country whose territories have different systems of law in force in matters of

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