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The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019

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This is a draft item of legislation. This draft has since been made as a UK Statutory Instrument: The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 No. 1458

Amendment of definition relating to civil partnership to include overseas relationships

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33.  In section 25(1), in the definition of “protected civil partnership”, for the words from “means” to the end substitute—

means—

(a)a civil partnership under the law of England or Wales, or

(b)an overseas relationship that is treated as a civil partnership by virtue of Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004,

and “protected overseas relationship” means a protected civil partnership within paragraph (b),.

(1)

The definition of “protected civil partnership” was inserted by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Schedule 5, paragraph 14(a).

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