Section 7: The civil partnership document
25.This section defines the term “civil partnership document” as a Registrar General’s licence in relation to the special procedure and a civil partnership schedule for all other procedures. Subsection (2) provides that before a civil partnership registration can take place, the civil partnership document must be delivered to the civil partnership registrar who may then ask the proposed civil partners for any information required to be recorded in the register.
26.Sections 8 to 17 set out the standard procedure by which two people may register as civil partners of each other in England and Wales.