(1) In this section -
"maintenance arrangement" means -
(a) an order of a court under Part 5 or 12 of the Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010, or
(b) a trust, covenant, agreement, arrangement or any other act giving rise to a legally enforceable obligation and made or done in consideration or in consequence of -
(i) the dissolution or annulment of a civil partnership, or
(ii) living separately in the circumstances referred to in section 1031A(2),
and a maintenance arrangement relates to the civil partnership in consideration or in consequence of the dissolution or annulment of which, or of the living separately in the circumstances referred to in section 1031A(2) to which, the maintenance arrangement was made or arises;
"payment" means a payment or part of a payment, as the case may be.
(1A) In this section a reference to a child of a civil partner includes a child in respect of whom the civil partner was at any time before the making of the ma
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