(1) The court may, on application to it in that behalf by either of the civil partners or by any other person who, in the opinion of the court, has a sufficient interest in the matter, make one or more of the following orders in relation to a civil partnership:

(a) an order declaring that the civil partnership was at its inception a valid civil partnership;

(b) an order declaring that the civil partnership subsisted on a date specified in the application; and

(c) an order declaring that the civil partnership did not subsist on a date specified in the application other than the date of its inception.

(2) The court may only make an order under subsection (1) if one of the civil partners -

(a) is domiciled in the State on the date of the application,

(b) has been ordinarily resident in the State throughout the period of one year immediately preceding the date of the application, or

(c) died before the date of the application and -

(i) was at the time of death domiciled in the State, or

(ii) had been ordinarily resident in the State throughout the period of one year immediately preceding the date of death.