Part 2Civil partnership: England and Wales
Chapter 1Registration
Registration procedure: general
6Place of registration
(1)
The place at which two people may register as civil partners of each other—
(a)
must be in England or Wales,
(b)
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(c)
must be specified in the notices, or notice, of proposed civil partnership required by this Chapter.
(2)
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F3(3)
Subsections (3A) and (3B) apply in the case of registration under the standard procedure (including that procedure modified as mentioned in section 5).
(3A)
The place must be—
(a)
on approved premises, or
(b)
in a register office.
(3B)
If it is in a register office, the place must be open to any person wishing to attend the registration.
(3C)
In this Chapter “register office” means a register office provided under section 10 of the Registration Service Act 1953.
F4(3D)
Where, further to regulations under section 6A of this Act or section 2 of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019, an approval of premises for the purposes of subsection (3A)(a) has effect—
(a)
only in relation to civil partnerships formed by two people of the same sex, or
(b)
only in relation to civil partnerships formed by two people of the opposite sex,
the premises are “approved premises”, for the purposes of this Part, only in relation to civil partnerships of that sort.
(4)
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(5)
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