The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 No. 1143

1. Introductory Text

2. PART 1 Introductory

   1. 1. Citation, commencement and extent

   2. 2. Interpretation: general

3. PART 2 Right to convert Civil Partnership or Marriage, and effect of conversion

   1. 3. Right to convert

   2. 4. Effect of conversion of marriage or civil partnership

4. PART 3 Civil Partnership and Marriage: Conversion from one into the other

   1. 5. Interpretation

   2. 6. Period of 3 years during which conversions may take place

   3. 7. Conversion procedure

   4. 8. Required information and evidence: conversion of a civil partnership into a marriage

   5. 9. Required information and evidence: conversion of a marriage into a civil partnership

   6. 10. Conversion declarations and their signing

   7. 11. Conversion before an officiant: returning the signed declaration

   8. 12. Duty to register a marriage, or record a civil partnership, resulting from a conversion

   9. 13. Conversions to be noted on records and mentioned on certificates and extracts

   10. 14. Verification of information and evidence

   11. 15. Modifications of Marriage (Northern Ireland) Order 2003 and Civil Partnership Act 2004

   12. 16. Conversions: protection from compulsion

   13. 17. Fees and charges

   14. 18. Agreements to convert not enforceable at law

5. PART 4 Conversion at Consulates abroad of Marriage into Civil Partnership

   1. 19. Interpretation of Part 4

   2. 20. Countries or territories in which consular conversions may take place

   3. 21. Conversion

   4. 22. Conversion procedure

   5. 23. Conversion declaration

   6. 24. Duty to register conversions

   7. 25. Power to dispense with requirements

6. PART 5 Conversion abroad of Marriage into Civil Partnership: Armed Forces

   1. 26. Interpretation of Part 5

   2. 27. Countries and territories in which conversions under this Part may take place

   3. 28. Conversion

   4. 29. Conversion procedure

   5. 30. Conversion declaration

7. PART 6 Conversion abroad of Civil Partnership into Marriage

   1. 31. (1) Parts 1, 3 and 4 of the 2014 Regulations,...

8. PART 7 Amendments of Legislation

   1. 32. Wills Act 1837

   2. 33. Services Departments Registers Order 1959

   3. 34. Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland) 1961

   4. 35. Social Security Pensions (Northern Ireland) Order 1975

   5. 36. Social Security Pensions Act 1975

   6. 37. Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978

   7. 38. Social Security Contributions and Benefits Act 1992

   8. 39. Social Security Contributions and Benefits (Northern Ireland) Act 1992

   9. 40. Pension Schemes (Northern Ireland) Act 1993

   10. 41. Wills and Administration Proceedings (Northern Ireland) Order 1994

   11. 42. Employment Equality (Sexual Orientation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2003

   12. 43. Gender Recognition Act 2004

   13. 44. Civil Partnership Act 2004

   14. 45. Income Tax Act 2007

   15. 46. Consular Fees Order 2012

   16. 47. Pensions Act 2014

   17. 48. Pensions Act (Northern Ireland) 2015

9. Signature

10. Explanatory Note