The Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 2014

  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 Introductory

    1. 1.Citation and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 Conversion in England and Wales

    1. 3.Conversion declaration

    2. 4.Information to be provided to Superintendent Registrar

    3. 5.Conversion procedures

    4. 6.Standard procedure for conversion

    5. 7.Procedure for housebound persons

    6. 8.Procedure for detained persons

    7. 9.The special procedure

    8. 10.The two stage procedure

    9. 11.Conversion on secular premises

    10. 12.Conversion on religious premises

    11. 13.Conversion followed by religious ceremony

    12. 14.Ceremonies

    13. 15.Waiver of fees

    14. 16.The fee payable under regulations 11(2)(a) or (3), or 12(2)(a)...

    15. 17.Verification and amendment of contents of conversion declaration

    16. 18.Duty to register marriage resulting from conversion

    17. 19.Completion of declaration and registration in Welsh

    18. 20.Verification of information and evidence

    19. 21.Duty to annotate civil partnership records

    20. 22.The conversion register

    21. 23.Searches of indexes of conversion records kept by the Registrar General and issue of copies

    22. 24.Searches of indexes of conversion records kept by the superintendent registrar and issue of copies

    23. 25.Retention of documents relating to conversions

    24. 26.Duties of the superintendent registrar

    25. 27.Correction of errors generally

    26. 28.Correction of errors

  4. PART 3 Consular Conversions

    1. 29.Countries or territories in which consular conversions may take place

    2. 30.Conversion

    3. 31.Conversion procedure

    4. 32.Conversion declaration

    5. 33.Duty to register conversions

    6. 34.Power to dispense with requirements

  5. PART 4 Armed Forces Conversions

    1. 35.Interpretation of this Part

    2. 36.Countries or territories in which armed forces conversions may take place

    3. 37.Conversion

    4. 38.Conversion procedure

    5. 39.Conversion declaration

    6. 40.Conversion followed by religious ceremony

  6. PART 5 Consequential amendments

    1. 41.Schedule 2 (which amends subordinate legislation in consequence of these...

  7. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

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    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Consequential Amendments

      1. 1.(1) The Civil Partnership (Registration Provisions) Regulations 2005 are amended...

      2. 2.(1) The Civil Partnership (Registration Abroad and Certificates) Order 2005...

  9. Explanatory Note