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(1)The Registrar General is to maintain at the General Register Office a register of decrees of dissolution [F2and of declarator of nullity] of civil partnership (a register which shall be known as the “Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership”).
(2)The Registrar General is to cause to be made and kept at the General Register Office an alphabetical index of the entries in that register.
(3)The register is to be in such form as may be prescribed.
(4)On payment to him of such fee or fees as may be prescribed, the Registrar General must, at any time when the General Register Office is open for that purpose—
(a)cause a search of the index to be made on behalf of any person or permit any person to search the index himself,
(b)issue to any person an extract of any entry in the register which that person may require.
(5)An extract of any entry in the register is to be sufficient evidence of the decree of dissolution [F3or, as the case may be, of the declarator of nullity of civil partnership] to which it relates.
(6)The Registrar General may—
(a)delete,
(b)amend, or
(c)substitute another entry for,
any entry in the register.
[F4(7)Section 39C of the 1965 Act applies in relation to the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership as it applies in relation to the Register of Divorces.]
Textual Amendments
F1S. 122 heading substituted (30.11.2023) by Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 15), s. 16, sch. 2 para. 6(3)(c); S.S.I. 2023/146, reg. 2, sch.
F2Words in s. 122(1) inserted (30.11.2023) by Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 15), s. 16, sch. 2 para. 6(3)(a); S.S.I. 2023/146, reg. 2, sch.
F3Words in s. 122(5) inserted (30.11.2023) by Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 15), s. 16, sch. 2 para. 6(3)(b); S.S.I. 2023/146, reg. 2, sch.
F4S. 122(7) inserted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 52(7), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1
Commencement Information
I1S. 122 wholly in force at 5.12.2005; s. 122 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 263; s. 122(3) in force at 14.9.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/428, art. 2, Sch.; s. 122(4) in force at 14.9.2005 for certain purposes by S.S.I. 2005/428, art. 2, Sch. and otherwise 5.12.2005 insofar as not already in force by S.S.I. 2005/604, art. 2(b); s. 122(1)(2)(5)(6) in force at 5.12.2005 insofar as not already in force by S.S.I. 2005/604, art. 2(b)
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