(1) The formation of a registered life partnership, its dissolution and those of its general effects that do not fall under Regulation (EU) 2016/1104 are governed by the substantive provisions of the State in which the life partnership is registered. The equalization of pension rights is governed by the law applicable under sentence 1; it shall only be carried out if accordingly German law is applicable and if the law of one of the countries, whose nationals the life partners are at the time when the application for termination of the life partnership is filed, recognizes an equalization of pension rights of life partners. Otherwise, it shall be carried out pursuant to German law on application of a life partner, if one of the life partners has acquired during the subsistence of the life partnership a pension right with an inland pension fund, insofar as carrying out the equalization of pension rights would not be inconsistent with equity, in particular in light of the economic circumstances of both sides during the entire time of the life partnership.
(2) Article 10 paragraph 2 and Article 17a shall apply mutatis mutandis.
(3) If a life partnership between the same persons is registered in different States, the effects specified in paragraph 1 shall, from the time of its registration on, be determined on the basis of the last life partnership entered into.
(4) If the spouses are of equal sex, or if at least one of them is neither female nor male, paragraphs 1 to 3 apply mutatis mutandis with the proviso that divorce and legal separation underlie the law applicable according to Regulation (EU) No. 1259/2010. The property consequences are subject to the law applicable according to Regulation (EU) 2016/1103.
(5) The marriages referred to in paragraph 4 are subject mutatis mutandis to article 13, paragraph 3, article 17, paragraphs 1 to 3, article 19, paragraph 1, sentence 3, article 22, paragraph 1, sentence 2, and paragraph 3, sentence 1, as well as article 46e. For the general effects of their marriage, the spouses can conclude an agreement designating the applicable law pursuant to article 14.