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

Conversion declaration

3.—(1) The parties to a civil partnership are to be regarded as having converted their civil partnership to a marriage when, having followed one of the procedures mentioned in regulation 5—

(a) at the invitation of the superintendent registrar, and in the presence of the superintendent registrar and of each other, each of them has signed the conversion declaration; and

(b) the superintendent registrar has also signed the conversion declaration in the presence of the parties.

(2) In this Part of these Regulations, “conversion declaration”, in relation to a conversion, means a document containing—

(a) the information recorded by the superintendent registrar in accordance with regulation 4(1);

(b) a declaration in the following terms: “I solemnly and sincerely declare that we are in a civil partnership with each other and I know of no legal reason why we may not convert our civil partnership into a marriage. I understand that on signing this document we will be converting our civil partnership into a marriage and you will thereby become my lawful wife [or husband].”; and

(c) a declaration that the party believes that all of the information and evidence given for the purposes of the conversion is true.

(3) As well as signing the conversion declaration as mentioned in paragraph (1)(a), the parties may, if they wish, say the words of the declaration in paragraph (2)(b) to each other in the presence of the superintendent registrar.