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The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014
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- 2014 No. 3181
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- Regulation 23
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23.—(1) The Registrar General must cause indexes of all entries in the conversion register to be made and to be kept in the General Register Office.
(2) Any person is entitled to search the indexes of the conversion register at any time when the General Register Office is open for that purpose, and to have a certified copy of any entry in the conversion register, on payment to the Registrar General of the [F1appropriate fee].
(3) The Registrar General must cause all certified copies given in the General Register Office to be sealed or stamped with the seal of that Office.
(4) Any certified copy stamped with the seal of the General Register Office is to be received in evidence of the marriage to which it relates without any further proof of the entry.
(5) No certified copy purporting to have been given by the General Register Office is to be of any force or effect unless it is sealed or stamped in accordance with paragraph (3).
(6) For the purpose of discharging the duty in paragraph (1), and the duty in section 65(1) of the 1949 Act(1) (duty to keep an index [F2of entries in the marriage register and certified copies of entries in marriage register books]), the Registrar General may keep a joint index of entries in the conversion register [F3and entries in the marriage register and certified copies of entries in marriage register books].
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F1Words in reg. 23(2) substituted (5.10.2016) by The Registration of Births, Deaths, Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) Regulations 2016 (S.I. 2016/911), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 3(11)
F2Words in reg. 23(6) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 66(2)(a) (with Sch. 2)
F3Words in reg. 23(6) substituted (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 66(2)(b) (with Sch. 2)
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I1Reg. 23 in force at 10.12.2014, see reg. 1
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1949 c. 76. There are amendments to section 65(2) and (4), not relevant here.
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