(1) This Order may be cited as the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Commencement No 1) (Northern Ireland) Order 2005.
(2) In this Order—
(a) “the Act” means the Civil Partnership Act 2004; and
(b) references to sections, subsections and Schedules are, unless otherwise stated, references to Parts, sections and subsections of, and Schedules to, the Act.
Date made: 25 August 2005: (no specific commencement provision).
(1) Subject to paragraph (2) the provisions of the Act specified in the first column of the Schedule to this Order shall come into force on 5th September 2005.
(2) Where a particular purpose is specified in relation to a provision in the second column of the Schedule to this Order the provision concerned shall come into force on that date only for that purpose. Where no particular purpose is specified the provision concerned shall come into force on that date for all purposes.
Date made: 25 August 2005: (no specific commencement provision).
Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Finance and Personnel on 25th August 2005
Ethne E Harkness
A Senior Officer of the Department of Finance and Personnel
Date 25th August 2005
| Column 1—Provisions | Column 2—Purpose | ||
| Section 139(2) and (3) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 140(1)(a) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 143 | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 144(4) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 144(6) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 145(3) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 147(1) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 149(2)(a) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Section 152(5) | |||
| Section 155(3) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by Order. | ||
| Section 156(1) and (3) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations or Order. | ||
| Section 157 | |||
| Section 159 | |||
| Section 160 | |||
| Section 169(3) and (4) | |||
| Section 184(1) | For the purpose of making rules of court under subsection (2). | ||
| Section 184(2) | |||
| Section 184(6) | |||
| Section 184(8) | |||
| Section 187(1) and (2) | |||
| Section 188 | |||
| Section 189(1) | |||
| Section 189(2) | For the purpose of making rules of court under subsection (1). | ||
| Section 190(2), (3) and (4) | For the purpose of making rules of court under subsection (2). | ||
| Section 191(3) | For the purpose of making rules of court. | ||
| Schedule 13 paragraph 6 | For the purpose of the powers in these provisions to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Schedule 15 paragraph 41(2) | For the purpose of making rules of court under paragraph 41(3). | ||
| Schedule 15 paragraph 41(3) | |||
| Schedule 15 paragraph 50(3), (4) and (5) | For the purpose of the power to prescribe matters by regulations. | ||
| Schedule 15 paragraph 75(4) | For the purpose of making rules of court and the powers to make regulations under the other provisions of Schedule 15 mentioned above. | ||
| Schedule 16 paragraphs 10 and 11(2) | For the purpose of making rules of court under paragraph 11(2). | ||
| Schedule 17 paragraphs 2(3), 4(1) and 12(1) and (5) | For the purpose of making rules of court. | ||
| Schedule 17 paragraphs 14(4), (5) and (6) | |||
| Schedule 29 paragraph 94 | For the purpose of exercising the power in Article 12 of the Family Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 to make family proceedings rules. | ||
Date made: 25 August 2005: (no specific commencement provision).
This Order brings into force on 5th September 2005 the provisions of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c 33) (“the Act”) listed in Column 1 of the Schedule.
These provisions of the Act are being commenced for the particular purpose or purposes specified in the corresponding entry in Column 2 of the Schedule. Where no particular purpose is specified, a provision is being commenced for all purposes. The purposes relate to the making of regulations, orders and rules of court under provisions of the Act and under provisions in existing legislation amended by the Act.
Sections 213(2) to (6), 247(2) to (7), 248(2) to (5), 254(2) to (6), 255, 258, 259, 260, 262, 263, and 264 of the Act came into force on Royal Assent on 18th November 2004.
A full regulatory impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument. A regulatory impact assessment identifying the impact on business and the exchequer of the provisions in the Act was published at the time the Act received Royal Assent. It is available from http://www.dti.gov.uk/access/ria/index.htm.
