{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-207",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-207.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "section/207",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "207",
  "heading": "Fatal accidents claims",
  "text": "(1) Amend the Fatal Accidents (Northern Ireland) Order 1977 (S.I. 1977/1251 (N.I. 18)) as follows.\n(2) In Article 2(2) (meaning of “dependant”), after sub-paragraph (a) insert—\n“(aa) the civil partner or former civil partner of the deceased;”.\n(3) In sub-paragraph (b)(iii) of Article 2(2), after “wife” insert “ or civil partner ”.\n(4) After sub-paragraph (f) of Article 2(2) insert—\n“(fa) any person (not being a child of the deceased) who, in the case of any civil partnership in which the deceased was at any time a civil partner, was treated by the deceased as a child of the family in relation to that civil partnership;”.\n(5) After Article 2(2A) insert—\n“(2B) The reference to the former civil partner of the deceased in paragraph (2)(aa) includes a reference to a person whose civil partnership with the deceased has been annulled as well as a person whose civil partnership with the deceased has been dissolved.”\n(6) In Article 2(3)(b), for “by affinity” substitute “ by marriage or civil partnership ”.\n(7) In Article 3A(2) (persons for whose benefit claim for bereavement damages may be made)—\n(a) in sub-paragraph (a), after “wife or husband” insert “ or civil partner ”, and\n(b) in sub-paragraph (b), after “was never married” insert “ or a civil partner ”.\n(8) In Article 5 (assessment of damages), in paragraph (3A), after “wife” insert “ or 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/section/207",
    "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."
}