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The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2006

S.I. 2006/639 · Made 6 March 2006

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CIVIL PARTNERSHIP

Made 6th March 2006

The Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 263 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004f1, makes the following Order:

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Footnotes

f1

2004 c. 33.

Contents

  1. 1Citation
  2. 2Provisions coming into force
  3. Signature
  4. Explanatory note

1Citation

This Order may be cited as the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Commencement No. 3) Order 2006.

2Provisions coming into force

The following provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 shall come into force on 6th April 2006—

(a)

Schedule 5, Part 7; and

(b)

Schedule 7, paragraphs 10(4)(b), (5)(b) and (9)(c).

Signature

Signed by authority of the Lord Chancellor

Cathy Ashton

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Department for Constitutional Affairs

Date 6th March 2006

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order brings into force, on 6th April 2006, Part 7 of Schedule 5 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) (“the Act”). Part 7 provides for the court to have regard to pension protection fund compensation when considering the question of financial relief on the dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership or on the legal separation of civil partners. It also brings into force certain paragraphs of Schedule 7 to the Act which make similar provision where a civil partnership is dissolved or annulled or civil partners have been legally separated overseas and an application for financial relief is made in England and Wales. The Pension Protection Fund was established by the Pensions Act 2004 (c. 35) (“the Pensions Act”). It pays compensation to members of certain pension schemes when a qualifying insolvency event in relation to the employer occurs and where there are insufficient assets in the pension scheme to cover the levels of compensation which would be payable by the Pension Protection Fund under the Pensions Act.