SCHEDULES
F1SCHEDULE 3AModifications if proposed civil partnership referred under section 12A
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
Civil partnership to be investigated: extension of waiting period to 70 days
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The modifications in this paragraph have effect if the Secretary of State gives the registration authority notice under section 48(8) of the 2014 Act of a decision to investigate whether the referred civil partnership is a sham.
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Section 11(b): the reference to the period of 28 days has effect as a reference to the relevant 70 day period.
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But, for the purposes of section 10, the waiting period is not extended by sub-paragraph (2).
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In this paragraph “relevant 70 day period” means the period—
a
beginning the day after notice of the proposed civil partnership is recorded in the register in accordance with section 8(5), and
b
ending at the end of the period of 70 days beginning with that day.
Sch. 3A inserted (1.3.2015) by Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22), s. 75(3), Sch. 4 para. 25 (with Sch. 9 para. 66); S.I. 2015/371, art. 2(1)(f)