{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-28/paragraph-50",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-28/paragraph-50.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/28/paragraph/50",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "50",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Amend section 53 (definition of “relative” and “nearest relative”) as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1)(a), at the end insert “ or civil partner ”.\n(3) In subsection (4)—\n(a) in paragraph (b), for “or wife” substitute “ , wife or civil partner ” and after “spouse” insert “ or civil partner ”, and\n(b) in paragraph (c), after “wife,” insert “ civil partner, ”.\n(4) After subsection (5) insert—\n“(5A) In this section “civil partner” includes a person who is living with the patient in a relationship which has the characteristics of the relationship between civil partners (or, if the patient is for the time being an in-patient in a hospital, was so living until the patient was admitted), and has been or had been so living for a period of not less than 6 months; but a person shall not be treated by virtue of this subsection as the nearest relative of a partner in a civil partnership unless the civil partner of the patient is disregarded by virtue of paragraph (b) of subsection (4) of this section.”\n(5) In subsection (6)(b)—\n(a) after “married patient” insert “ or of a partner in a civil partnership ”, and\n(b) after “wife” insert “ , or as the case may be the civil partner, ”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/schedule/28/paragraph/50",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:53.191982+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."
}