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The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019

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Ordinary applications: evidence about civil partnershipU.K.

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24.—(1) Section 3 is amended as follows.

(2) After subsection (6A)(1) insert—

(6AA) If the applicant is a civil partner, an application under section 1(1) must include a statutory declaration as to whether the civil partnership is a civil partnership under the law of England and Wales, of Scotland, or of Northern Ireland, or is an overseas relationship that is treated as a civil partnership by virtue of Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004..

(3) In subsection (6B)—

(a)in the words before paragraph (a)—

(i)after “married” insert “or a civil partner”;

(ii)after “the marriage” insert “or civil partnership”;

(iii)after “protected marriage” insert “or a protected civil partnership”;

(b)in paragraph (a)—

(i)after “spouse”, where it first occurs, insert “or civil partner”;

(ii)after “spouse”, in both remaining places it occurs, insert “or partner”;

(iii)after “marriage” insert “or partnership”;

(c)in paragraph (b), after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”.

(4) In subsection (6C)—

(a)after “spouse”, where it first occurs, insert “or civil partner”;

(b)after “spouse”, in the remaining place it occurs, insert “or partner”.

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 24 in force at 2.12.2019, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

Section 3(6A)-(6C) was inserted by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Schedule 5, paragraph 2.

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