Section 253: Civil partners to have unlimited insurable interest in each other

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

Part 7: Miscellaneous

Where two people are civil partners, each of them is to be presumed for the purposes of section 1 of the Life Assurance Act 1774 (c. 48) to have an interest in the life of the other.

For the purposes of section 3 of the 1774 Act, there is no limit on the amount of value of the interest.

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