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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014 No. 3181
30.—(1) The parties to a civil partnership are to be regarded as having converted their civil partnership into a marriage under this Part when—
(a)the parties have completed the procedure mentioned in regulation 31;
(b)at the invitation of the registration officer and in the presence of the registration officer and of each other, each of the parties has signed the conversion declaration; and
(c)the registration officer has also signed the conversion declaration in the presence of the parties.
(2) No religious service is to be used at a conversion under this Part.
(3) As well as signing the conversion declaration, the parties may, if they wish, say the words of the declaration in regulation 32(d) to each other in the presence of the registration officer.
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