Section 189: Appeals

Civil Partnership Act 2004 · 2004 c. 33View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 4: Civil partnership: Northern Ireland — Chapter 2: Dissolution, nullity and other proceedings

Rules of court shall make provision for an appeal upon a point of law, a question of fact or the admission or rejection of any evidence to the Court of Appeal from—

any order made by a judge of a ... county court in the exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by a relevant provision, or
the dismissal by a judge of a ... county court of any application under a relevant provision.

“Relevant provision” means any provision of—

this Chapter or Schedule 15 (except paragraphs 56 to 58 and 66);
the Children (Northern Ireland) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/755 (N.I. 2)).

A person dissatisfied with—

an order made by any county court in exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by paragraph 57, 58 or 66 of Schedule 15, or
with the dismissal of any application made by him under any of those paragraphs,

is entitled to appeal from the order or dismissal as if the order or dismissal had been made in exercise of the jurisdiction conferred by Part 3 of the County Courts (Northern Ireland) Order 1980 (S.I. 1980/397 (N.I. 3)) and the appeal brought under Part 6 of that Order and Articles 61 (cases stated by county court judge) and 62 (cases stated by High Court on appeal from county court) of that Order apply accordingly.

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