# Civil Partnership Act 2004, Paragraph 32


(1) Section 101 (service of proceedings for maintenance etc.) is amended as follows.
(2) In subsection (5)(a) and (b), after “wife” insert “ or civil partner ”.
(3) In subsection (5A), after paragraph (a) insert—
“(aa) references to the civil partner of a person include, in relation to an order made in proceedings in connection with the dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership, references to a person who would have been his civil partner if the civil partnership had subsisted; and”.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/schedule/26/paragraph/32 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-26/paragraph-32
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