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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-commencement-no-4-northern-ireland-order-2006/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2006/928",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Commencement No. 4) (Northern Ireland) Order 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-commencement-no-4-northern-ireland-order-2006",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Order)\nThis Order brings into force on 6th April 2006 Part 6 of Schedule 15 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33) (“the Act”). Part 6 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 provisions of Schedule 17 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 Northern Ireland.\nA full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. A regulatory impact assessment identifying the impact on business and the exchequer of the provisions in the Act was published at the time the Act received Royal Assent. It is available from http://www.dti.gsi.uk/access/ria/index.htm.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2006/928/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:32:58.167896+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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