The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019

Population (Statistics) Act 1938

This section has no associated Explanatory Memorandum

1.  In paragraph 1 of the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1938(1)—

(a)for sub-paragraphs (c) and (d) substitute—

(c)where the birth is of a child whose father and mother were married to, or civil partners of, each other at the time of the child’s birth (or a child to whom section 1(3) of the Family Law Reform Act 1987 applies by reason of a marriage or civil partnership between the child’s parents)—

(i)the date of the marriage or formation of the civil partnership, and

(ii)whether before she married, or formed the civil partnership with, the child’s other parent, the mother had been married to, or had formed a civil partnership with, any other person;;

(b)in sub-paragraph (e), omit “or (d)”.

(1)

1938 c. 12. The Schedule was substituted by the Population (Statistics) Act 1960, section 1(2); paragraph 1(c)-(e) was substituted by the Welfare Reform Act 2009, section 56 and Schedule 6, paragraph 20(1)(b), (2); and paragraph 1(d) was substituted by SI 2014/560.