Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010

Effect of decree of nullity.

108.— (1) Where the court grants a decree of nullity, the civil partnership is declared not to have existed and either civil partner may register in a new civil partnership or marry.

(2) The rights of a person who relied on the existence of a civil partnership which is subsequently the subject of a decree of nullity are not prejudiced by that decree.