{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-dissolution-and-separation-act-2020/section-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-dissolution-and-separation-act-2020/section-5.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2020/11",
  "legislation_title": "Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/divorce-dissolution-and-separation-act-2020",
  "path": "section/5",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Separation: removal of factual grounds",
  "text": "(1) Section 56 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (separation orders) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (1), for the words from “either civil partner” to the end substitute “ either or both civil partners. ”\n(3) After subsection (1) insert—\n“(1A) An application under subsection (1) must be accompanied by—\n(a) if the application is by one civil partner only, a statement by that person that they seek to be separated from the other civil partner, or\n(b) if the application is by both civil partners, a statement by them that they seek to be separated from one another.”\n(4) Omit subsection (2).\n(5) For subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) The court dealing with an application under subsection (1) must make a separation order.”\n(6) Omit subsection (4).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 5 in force at 6.4.2022 by S.I. 2022/283, reg. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2020/11/section/5",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:01:49.016172+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."
}