282.This section provides that the Registrar General and other registrars must ensure that indexes to civil partnership formation records are made available for public inspection.
283.Subsections (2) and (3) provide that such indexes may be searched and documents relating to a civil partnership registration may be requested upon payment of a prescribed fee. Subsections (4) and (5) provide that any document produced by the Registrar General must be stamped with the seal of the General Register Office and judicial notice must be taken of it.