Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010

Amendment of section 1 of Act of 1996.

91.— Section 1(1) of the Act of 1996 is amended by inserting the following definitions:

“ ‘Act of 2010’ means the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010;

‘civil partner’ has the meaning assigned to it by the Act of 2010 and includes a person who was a civil partner in a partnership that has been dissolved under that Act;”.