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The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019

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Limitation of right to convert civil partnership into marriage to same-sex couplesE+W

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37.—(1) In section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013(1), after subsection (2) insert—

(2A) Subsections (1) and (2) apply only where both parties to the civil partnership are of the same sex..

(2) In regulation 2 of the Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014(2), in the definition of “civil partnership”, for the words from “is either” to the end substitute—

(a)is between two people who are of the same sex, and

(b)is either an England and Wales civil partnership, or a civil partnership within section 9(3) of the 2013 Act;.

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I1Reg. 37 in force at 2.12.2019, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

There are amendments to section 9, but none is relevant to this instrument.

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