Part 2 U.K. Civil partnership: England and Wales

Chapter 1 U.K. Registration

The standard procedure E+W

[F1 9B Change of usual address or UK contact address E+W

(1) The Secretary of State may, by regulations, make provision about the giving to the Secretary of State of—

(a) notice of a person's usual address, if the person's notified usual address changes;

(b) notice of a UK contact address, if the person's notified usual address is not in the United Kingdom;

(c) notice of a person's UK contact address, if the person's notified UK contact address changes;

(d) evidence of any address notified in accordance with regulations under paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

(2) The provision that may be made in regulations under this section includes—

(a) provision imposing a requirement on a person;

(b) provision about the rejection of information or evidence which there are reasonable grounds to suspect to be false.

(3) Regulations under subsection (1)(d) may, in particular, make any provision of the kind that may be made under section 9E(3).

(4) In this section—

• “notified UK contact address” means an address in the United Kingdom, at which a person can be contacted by post, that has been notified in accordance with—

  (a)

  section 8A(7) or 9A(6), or

  (b)

  regulations under this section;

• “notified usual address” means the usual address of a person that has been notified in accordance with—

  (a)

  section 8A(7) or 9A(6), or

  (b)

  regulations under this section.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Ss. 9-9F substituted for s. 9 (20.10.2014 for specified purposes, 1.3.2015 in so far as not already in force) by Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22), s. 75(3), Sch. 4 para. 21 (with Sch. 9 para. 66); S.I. 2014/2771, art. 3(e); S.I. 2015/371, art. 2(1)(f)