Part 3Civil partnership: Scotland
Chapter 2Registration
I188Notice of proposed civil partnership
1
In order to register as civil partners, each of the intended civil partners must submit to the district registrar a notice, in the prescribed form F1. . . , of intention to enter civil partnership (in this Part referred to as a “notice of proposed civil partnership”).
2
F2Each of the intended civil partners must also pay the prescribed fee and submit the following documents—
a
that person's birth certificate,
b
if that person has previously been married or in civil partnership and—
i
the marriage or civil partnership has been dissolved, a copy of the decree of divorce or dissolution, or
ii
the other party to that marriage or civil partnership has died, the death certificate of that other party, and
c
if that person has previously ostensibly been married or in civil partnership but decree of annulment has been obtained, a copy of that decree.
3
If a person is unable to submit a certificate or decree required by subsection (2) he may instead make a declaration to that effect, stating what the reasons are; and he must provide the district registrar with such—
a
information in respect of the matters to which the certificate or document would have related, and
b
documentary evidence in support of that information,
as the district registrar may require.
4
If a document submitted under subsection (2) or (3) is in a language other than English, the person submitting it must attach to the document a translation of it in English, certified by the translator as a correct translation.
5
A person submitting a notice under subsection (1) must make and F3attest in the prescribed manner the necessary declaration (the form for which must be included in any form prescribed for the notice).
F45A
Regulations prescribing the form of the notice of proposed civil partnership may make provision for the notice to be electronic rather than paper-based.
6
The necessary declaration is a declaration that the person submitting the notice believes that the intended civil partners are eligible to be in civil partnership with each other.