Commentary on Sections Part 4 – Civil Partnership: Northern Ireland.Introduction Chapter 2 – Dissolution, Nullity and Other Proceedings Section 190: Transfer of proceedings
358.This section provides that rules of court may be made to facilitate the transfer of any civil partnership cause from a civil partnership proceedings county court to the High Court or alternatively from the High Court back to the civil partnership proceedings county court.
359.Subsection (3) provides a definition of a “civil partnership cause” for the purposes of this section.
360.Subsection (4) provides that rules of court may provide for the transfer or retransfer of a civil partnership cause from either a civil partnership proceedings county court to the High Court or, from the High Court to a civil partnership proceedings county court.
361.Subsection (5) provides that the power conferred by subsections (2) and (4) includes the power to provide for the removal of proceedings at the direction of the High Court. Nothing in this subsection affects the High Court’s powers of removal and remittal.