EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations bring the provisions of the Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 listed in the schedule of the Regulations into force on 30 November 2023. The provisions brought into force amend section 122 of the Anti-social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Act 2014 to make it an offence to coerce a person to enter into a civil partnership, and amend section 122 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 to provide for the inclusion of declarators of nullity of civil partnership in the register of dissolutions maintained by the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland.