Part 4Civil partnership: Northern Ireland

Chapter 1Registration

Preliminaries to registration

143AF1Civil partnership notice: false information or evidence

1

A registrar may refuse to complete a civil partnership schedule under section 143 (or where one has already been completed, may cancel it) in a case where—

a

notice of a proposed civil partnership has been given under section 139, and

b

the registrar has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a relevant decision was made incorrectly because of the provision of false information or evidence in or accompanying that notice.

2

If the registrar refuses to complete (or cancels) a civil partnership schedule under subsection (1), the parties to the proposed civil partnership are to be taken not to have given notice under section 139; but that does not prevent criminal proceedings from being brought against either party, or any other person, in relation to the giving of the notice.

3

This section does not limit the powers of the registrar to refuse to complete (or, as the case may be, cancel) a civil partnership schedule.

4

In this section—

  • “evidence” includes a photograph or other image;

  • “exempt person” has the same meaning as in section 139E;

  • “relevant decision” means a decision of a registrar that a party to the proposed civil partnership is an exempt person.