Children and Family Relationships Act 2015

157.

Amendment of section 120 of Act of 2010

157. Section 120 of the Act of 2010 is amended—

(a) in subsection (1) —

(i) by the substitution of “in that behalf by either of the civil partners or by a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners” for “in that behalf by either of the civil partners”,

(ii) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (a):

“(a) an order, on the application of either of the civil partners, requiring the other civil partner to effect a policy of life insurance for the benefit of the applicant civil partner or a dependent child of the civil partners;”,

(iii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (a):

“(aa) an order, on the application of a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners, requiring either of the civil partners to effect such a policy of life insurance for the benefit of the dependent child;”,

(iv) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (b):

“(b) an order, on the application of one civil partner, requiring the other civil partner to assign to the applicant civil partner, or to such person as may be specified in the order for the benefit of a dependent child of the civil partners, the whole or a specified part of the interest in a policy of life insurance that the other civil partner has effected or that both of the civil partners have effected;”,

(v) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (b):

“(ba) an order, on the application of a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners, requiring either civil partner or both civil partners to assign to a person specified in the order for the benefit of the dependent child of the civil partners the whole or a specified part of the interest in a policy of life insurance that either civil partner has effected or that both of the civil partners have effected; and”,

and

(vi) by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):

“(c) an order—

(i) on the application of a civil partner, requiring the other civil partner, or

(ii) on the application of a person on behalf of a dependent child of the civil partners, requiring either or both of the civil partners,

to make or to continue to make to the person by whom a policy of life insurance is or was issued the payments which he or she or both of the civil partners is or are required to make under the terms of the policy.”,

(b) in subsection (2) —

(i) in paragraph (a), by the substitution of “applicant civil partner or the dependent child of the civil partners” for “applicant”, and

(ii) in paragraph (b), by the substitution of “applicant civil partner or the dependent child of the civil partners, as the case may be,” for “applicant”,

(c) in subsection (3), by the substitution of “for the civil partner concerned or any dependent child of the civil partners concerned” for “for the civil partner concerned”, and

(d) in subsection (4), by the substitution of “death of the applicant civil partner in whose favour the order was made in so far as it relates to him or her” for “death of the applicant”.