SCHEDULE 1Specified overseas relationships: opposite-sex relationships

Regulation 5(6)

The provision to be inserted as Part 2 of Schedule 20 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is as follows—

PART 2Opposite-sex relationships

A relationship is specified for the purposes of section 213(1)(b) (specified relationships between two people who are not of the same sex) if it is registered in a country or territory given in the first column of the table and fits the description given in relation to that country or territory in the second column—

Country or territory

Description

Andorra

uniό estable de parella

Argentina

unión convivencial

Aruba

geregistreerd partnerschap

Australia: Australian Capital Territory

civil partnership

Australia: New South Wales

a relationship registered under the Relationships Register Act 2010

Australia: Queensland

civil partnership

Australia: South Australia

registered relationship

Australia: Tasmania

significant relationship

Australia: Victoria

registered domestic relationship

Austria

eingetragene Partnerschaft

Belgium

the relationship referred to as cohabitation légale, wettelijke samenwoning or gesetzliches Zusammenwohnen

Bermuda

domestic partnership

Brazil

união estável

Canada: Alberta

adult interdependent partner

Canada: Manitoba

the relationship referred to as common-law relationship or as union de fait

Canada: Nova Scotia

domestic partnership

Canada: Quebec

union civile

Chile

unión civil

Colombia

unión marital de hecho

Cyprus

politiki symviosi

Ecuador

unión de hecho

Estonia

Kooselulepingu

Falkland Islands

civil partnership

France

pacte civil de solidarité

Gibraltar

civil partnership

Greece

simfono simviosis

Isle of Man

civil partnership

Israel

civil union

Luxembourg

the relationship referred to as partenariat enregistré or eingetragene Partnerschaft

Malta

civil union

Mexico: Campeche

sociedad civil de Convivencia

Mexico: Coahuila

pacto civil de solidaridad

Mexico: Mexico City Federal District

sociedad de convivencia

Mexico: Michoacán

sociedad de Convivencia

Mexico: Tlaxcala

sociedad de convivencia solidaria

Netherlands

geregistreerd partnerschap

New Zealand

civil union

San Marino

unione civile

South Africa

civil partnership

Spain: Balearic Islands

pareja estable

Spain: Basque Country

pareja de hecho

Spain: Galicia

pareja de hecho

United States of America: California

domestic partnership

United States of America: Colorado

civil union

United States of America: District of Columbia

domestic partnership

United States of America: Hawaii

civil union

United States of America: Illinois

civil union

United States of America: Maine

domestic partnership

United States of America: Nevada

domestic partnership

United States of America: New Jersey

domestic partnership

United States of America: Washington

state registered domestic partnership