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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-civil-partnership-staying-of-proceedings-rules-2005/article-11",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/2921",
  "legislation_title": "The Family Proceedings (Civil Partnership: Staying of Proceedings) Rules 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-proceedings-civil-partnership-staying-of-proceedings-rules-2005",
  "path": "article/11",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "11",
  "heading": "Transitional provision",
  "text": "Where—\n(a) there are proceedings before the court in respect of a civil partnership which are continuing;\n(b) that civil partnership is treated as having been formed by virtue of section 215(1) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004; and\n(c) the overseas relationship by reference to which the parties are treated as having formed the civil partnership was registered before 5th December 2005,\nthen 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.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2921/article/11",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:48:24.786400+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."
}