Part 2Civil partnership: England and Wales

Chapter 1Registration

Supplementary

36Regulations and orders

1

Regulations may make provision supplementing the provisions of this Chapter.

2

Regulations may in particular make provision—

a

relating to the use of Welsh in documents and records relating to civil partnerships;

b

with respect to the retention of documents relating to civil partnerships;

c

prescribing the duties of civil partnership registrars;

d

prescribing the duties of persons in whose presence any declaration is made for the purposes of this Chapter;

e

for the issue by the Registrar General of guidance supplementing any provision made by the regulations.

f

for the issue by registration authorities or the Registrar General of certified copies of entries in the register and for such copies to be received in evidence.

3

In this Chapter F1, except in section 6A,“regulations” means regulations made by the Registrar General with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

4

Any power to make regulations or an order under this Chapter is exercisable by statutory instrument.

5

A statutory instrument containing F2regulations under section 6A or an order under section 34 is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.

6

No order may be made under section 35 unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.