Schedule 27 - Minor and consequential amendments: general
Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]
3:30 pm
Ms Jacqui Smith (Minister of State (Industry and the Regions and Deputy Minister for Women), Department of Trade and Industry; Redditch, Labour)
I beg to move amendment No. 177, in schedule 27, page 362, line 30, at end insert—
'( ) After section 9(3) insert—
''(4) For the purposes of this section two persons are civil partners of each other if they are of the same sex and either—
(a) they are civil partners of each other; or
(b) they are not civil partners of each other but are living together as if they were civil partners.'''.