The Family Proceedings (Civil Partnership: Staying of Proceedings) Rules (Northern Ireland) 2005
These Rules are made under Article 12(1) of the Family Law (Northern Ireland) Order 1993 as extended by section 231 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which allows for provision to be made in relation to civil partnerships corresponding to the provision made in respect of marriages by Schedule 1 to the Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978. That Schedule makes provision about the relationship between domestic proceedings for divorce, judicial separation, nullity of marriage and declarations as to the validity and subsistence of a marriage of the petitioner, and proceedings in another jurisdiction of a similar type, and provides for when those domestic proceedings shall or may be stayed.