ORDER 59A

CIVIL PARTNERSHIP AND CERTAIN RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF COHABITANTS ACT, 2010

1. In this Order:

‘the Act’ means the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010;

‘the Act of 2004’ means the Civil Registration Act 2004;

‘civil partnership law proceedings’ has the same meaning as in section 139 of the Act;

‘cohabitation proceedings’ means proceedings under Part 15 of the Act;

“dependent child” and “dependent child of the civil partners” each has the same meaning as in section 2 of the Act, and

reference to registration of a civil partnership includes, in the case of a civil partnership recognised by virtue of section 5 of the Act, registration of a legal relationship as referred to in that section.