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The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014
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- 2014 No. 3181
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- Regulation 33
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Duty to register conversionsE+W+N.I.
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33.—(1) The registration officer for the consular district, nominated for such purposes by the Secretary of State, must maintain a register, in which each registration officer must register the details included pursuant to regulation 32(a) and (b) on every conversion declaration signed by him or her in accordance with regulation 30(1)(c).
(2) Every nominated registration officer must, at such times as are determined by the Secretary of State, send to the Registrar General for England and Wales a copy of any entry in the register made since that information was last sent, and if there has been no entry over the relevant time period, confirmation of that fact.
(3) A certified copy of any entry in the register must be provided to any person upon request and on payment of the appropriate fee(1), by the Secretary of State until such time as a certified copy is available from the Registrar General for England and Wales and, at all other times, by the Registrar General for England and Wales upon payment of the same fee as would be charged for a copy of an entry in the conversion register in the custody of the Registrar General for England and Wales.
[F1(4) Where the Registrar General for England and Wales receives under paragraph (2) a copy of an entry relating to—
(a)the conversion of a convertible Northern Ireland civil partnership into a marriage, or
(b)the conversion, under Part 4 of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020, of a marriage into a civil partnership,
the Registrar General for England and Wales must send a certified copy of the entry to the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.
(5) A copy of an entry sent to the Registrar General for Northern Ireland under paragraph (4)(a) is a marriage registration record for the purposes of Article 35 of the Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2003.
(6) A copy of an entry sent to the Registrar General for Northern Ireland under paragraph (4)(b) is a civil partnership registration record for the purposes of section 155 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.]
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F1Reg. 33(4)-(6) inserted (7.12.2020) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1143), regs. 1(2), 31(6)
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I1Reg. 33 in force at 10.12.2014, see reg. 1
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The fee for a certified copy provided by the Secretary of State is prescribed by Order under the Consular Fees Act 1980 (c. 23).
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