# The Family Procedure (Civil Partnership: Staying of Proceedings) Rules 2010, Article 11: Transitional provisions


(1) Where—
(a) there are proceedings before the court in respect of a civil partnership which are continuing;
(b) that civil partnership is treated as having been formed by virtue of section 215(1) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004; and
(c) the overseas relationship by reference to which the parties are treated as having formed the civil partnership was registered before 5th December 2005,
then rule 3 applies to those proceedings as though the reference to the parties having lived together after the formation of the civil partnership is a reference to their having lived together after the registration of the overseas relationship.
(2) Where civil partnership proceedings are started before 6th April 2011—
(a) these Rules shall apply to those proceedings from that date; but
(b) anything previously done or required to be done in the proceedings under the Family Proceedings (Civil Partnership: Staying of Proceedings) Rules 2005 shall, if validly done under those rules, be treated as validly done for the purposes of these Rules.

---
Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2010/2986/article/11 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/family-procedure-civil-partnership-staying-of-proceedings-rules-2010/article-11
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.