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The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014

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Searches of indexes of conversion records kept by the superintendent registrar and issue of copiesE+W

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24.—(1) Every superintendent registrar must cause indexes of entries in the conversion register relating to all conversions registered in the superintendent registrar’s registration district to be made and to be kept with other records in the register office.

(2) Any person is entitled at any time when the register office is required to be open for the transaction of public business to search the indexes, and to have a certified copy of any entry in the conversion register, on payment to the superintendent registrar of the [F1appropriate fee].

(3) The superintendent registrar must sign all certified copies given in accordance with paragraph (2).

(4) Any certified copy signed by the superintendent registrar 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 superintendent registrar is to be of any force or effect unless it is signed in accordance with paragraph (3).

(6) For the purpose of discharging the duty in paragraph (1), and the duty in section 64(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 superintendent registrar 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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1949 c. 76. There are amendments to section 64(2), not relevant here.

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