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Amendment Paper as at
Tuesday 26th October 2004

STANDING COMMITTEE D


CIVIL PARTNERSHIP BILL [LORDS]

NOTE

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the Committee [19th October 2004].


   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire
Mr Robert Key
Mr John Bercow
Charles Hendry

6

Clause     84,     page     38,     line     30,     leave out 'Subject to subsection (2),'.

   

Mr Christopher Chope

235

Clause     84,     page     38,     line     32,     leave out paragraph (a).

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

52

Clause     84,     page     38,     line     36,     leave out 'of understanding the nature of civil partnership' and insert 'of—

(i) understanding the nature of civil partnership, or

(ii) validly consenting to its formation'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire
Mr Robert Key
Mr John Bercow
Charles Hendry

7

Clause     84,     page     38,     line     37,     leave out subsection (2).

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

53

Clause     84,     page     39,     line     42,     leave out 'following modifications' and insert 'modifications specified in subsections (7) and (8)'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

54

Clause     84,     page     39,     line     45,     leave out 'those provisions' and insert 'subsection (5) or those paragraphs'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

55

Clause     84,     page     40,     line     15,     at end insert—

    '( )   For the purposes of this section, a degree of relationship specified in paragraph 1 of Schedule 11 exists whether it is of the full blood or the half blood.

    ( )   Amend section 41(1) of the Adoption (Scotland) Act 1978 (c.28) (application to determination of forbidden degrees of provisions of that Act relating to the status conferred by adoption) as follows—

(a) after first "marriage" insert ", to the eligibility of persons to register as civil partners of each other", and

(b) for "and incest" substitute ", to such eligibility and to incest".'.


   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

56

Clause     90,     page     42,     line     6,     leave out 'of understanding the nature of civil partnership' and insert 'of—

(i) 

(i) understanding the nature of civil partnership, or

(ii) validly consenting to its formation'.


   

Mr Christopher Chope

236

Clause     115,     page     59,     line     37,     leave out 'dissolution' and insert 'cessation'.

   

Mr Christopher Chope

237

Clause     115,     page     60,     line     3,     leave out paragraphs (a) to (d) and insert—

'(a) the defender consents to the granting of decree of dissolution of the civil partnership,

(b) the defender has committed an act of sexual infidelity, or

(c) there has been no cohabitation between the civil partners at any time during a continuous period of six months immediately preceding the bringing of the action.'.

   

Mr Christopher Chope

238

Clause     115,     page     60,     line     22,     leave out subsection (4).

   

Mr Christopher Chope

239

Clause     115,     page     60,     line     36,     leave out subsection (6).

   

Mr Christopher Chope

240

Clause     115,     page     60,     line     40,     leave out subsection (7).


   

Mr Christopher Chope

241

Page     61,     line     5,     leave out Clause 117.


   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

57

Clause     120,     page     62,     line     8,     leave out from 'other' to end of line 9 and insert ', the civil partnership is void if, and only if—

(a) they were not eligible to do so, or

(b) though they were so eligible, either of them did not validly consent to its formation.'.


   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

58

Clause     121,     page     62,     line     16,     leave out '50' and insert '50(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e)'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

59

Clause     121,     page     62,     line     19,     leave out 'by virtue of provision made under section 149,' and insert 'under section 169,'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

60

Clause     121,     page     62,     line     21,     leave out 'by virtue of such provision' and insert 'under section 170(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e)'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

61

Clause     121,     page     62,     line     29,     leave out sub-paragraph (i).

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

62

Clause     121,     page     62,     line     32,     after '(2)(a)' insert 'or (b)'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

63

Clause     121,     page     62,     line     37,     leave out from first 'voidable' to end of line 42 and insert 'if—

(i) 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

(ii) the appropriate part of the United Kingdom is Northern Ireland and the circumstances fall within section 170(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e).

    (5)   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.'.

   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire

64

Clause     121,     page     63,     line     7,     leave out from 'law,' to end of line 15 and insert—

'(b) 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

(c) where either of the parties was domiciled in Northern Ireland at the time when the overseas relationship was registered, the circumstances fall within section 170(1)(a), (b), (c) or (e).

    (8A)   Section 51 or (as the case may be) section 171 applies for the purposes of—

(a) subsections (1)(b), (2)(b) and (4)(b),

(b) subsection (8)(a), in so far as applicable in accordance with the relevant law, and

(c) subsection (8)(b) and (c).

    (8B)   In subsections (8)(a) and (8A)(b) "the relevant law" means the law of the country or territory where the overseas relationship was registered (including its rules of private international law).

    (8C)   For the purposes of subsections (8) and (8A)(b) and (c), references in sections 50 and 51 or (as the case may be) sections 170 and 171 to the formation of the civil partnership are to be read as references to the registration of the overseas relationship.'.


   

Jacqui Smith
Mrs Anne McGuire
Mr Robert Key
Mr John Bercow
Charles Hendry

8

Clause     123,     page     63,     line     31,     leave out subsection (3).


   

Jacqui Smith

65

Clause     133,     page     67,     line     22,     leave out 'civil partnership'.


   

Jacqui Smith
Mr Robert Key
Mr John Bercow
Charles Hendry

9

Clause     134,     page     67,     line     25,     leave out 'Subject to subsection (2),'.

   

Mr Christopher Chope

242

Clause     134,     page     67,     line     27,     leave out paragraph (a).

   

Jacqui Smith
Mr Robert Key
Mr John Bercow
Charles Hendry

10

Clause     134,     page     67,     line     33,     leave out subsection (2).


   

Jacqui Smith
Mr Robert Key
Mr John Bercow
Charles Hendry

11

Clause     155,     page     75,     line     29,     leave out subsection (2).


   

Mr Christopher Chope

243

Clause     170,     page     83,     line     33,     at end insert—

'(ca) at the time of its formation, the respondent was suffering from a communicable sexual disease;'.


   

Jacqui Smith

174

Schedule     15,     page     239,     line     18,     at end insert—

    '( ) In paragraph (1)(ba) (application may be made by person living as husband or wife of the deceased), after "paragraph (1A)" insert "or (1B)".'.

   

Jacqui Smith

175

Schedule     15,     page     239,     line     20,     at end insert—

    '( ) After paragraph (1A) insert—

    "(1B)   This paragraph applies to a person if for the whole of the period of two years ending immediately before the date when the deceased died the person was living—

(a) in the same household as the deceased, and

(b) as the civil partner of the deceased."'.

   

Jacqui Smith

176

Schedule     15,     page     240,     line     5,     at end insert—

      'In Article 5(2A) (application by person living as husband or wife of deceased: matters to which court is to have regard), in sub-paragraph (a), after "wife" insert "or civil partner".'.


   

Jacqui Smith

44

Schedule     16,     page     252,     line     46,     leave out sub-paragraph (3).

   

Jacqui Smith

45

Schedule     16,     page     253,     line     1,     after 'under' insert 'paragraph 22 or'.

 
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