Civil Partnership Act 2004

Civil partnership to be investigated: extension of 28 day period to 70 days E+W

[F1 3. (1) The modifications in this paragraph have effect if the Secretary of State gives the district registrar notice under section 48(8D) of the 2014 Act of a decision to investigate whether the referred civil partnership is a sham.

(2) Section 91(1) has effect as if—

(a) for the words from “being” to “section 90” there were substituted “being a date before the expiry of the relevant 70 day period”, and

(b) the words from “; and if a date” to the end were omitted.

(3) Section 94 has effect as if for paragraph (b) there were substituted—

“(b) the relevant 70 day period has expired,”.”

(4) In sections 91 and 94 (as modified by this paragraph) and in paragraph 4 “relevant 70 day period” means the period—

(a) beginning the day after the particulars of the proposed civil partnership are entered in the civil partnership book in accordance with section 89 (civil partnership notice book), and

(b) ending at the end of the period of 70 days beginning with that day.

(5) This paragraph is subject to paragraph 4.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Sch. 10A inserted for specified purposes (1.3.2015) by The Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/396), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 3 (with art. 1(3)(5))