PART 2E+WConversion in England and Wales

Duty to annotate civil partnership recordsE+W

21.—(1) As soon as practicable after a marriage is registered in accordance with regulation 18(1), or the Registrar General is notified of a conversion under Part 3 or 4 of these Regulations, the Registrar General must ensure that any records of the civil partnership held by the Registrar General (which does not include the indexes made under regulation 17(1) of the Civil Partnership (Registration Provisions) Regulations 2005(1)), are annotated with the date and place of the conversion.

(2) After a marriage is registered in accordance with regulation 18(1), or the Registrar General is notified of a conversion under Part 3 or 4 of these Regulations, the Registrar General or a registration authority may not issue any of the certified copies F1... within paragraph (3) relating to a civil partnership that has been converted into a marriage, unless the copies F2... include the annotation made under paragraph (1).

(3) Paragraph (2) applies to—

(a)any certified copy F3... of an entry in the civil partnership register issued pursuant to regulation 13 of the Civil Partnership (Registration Provisions) Regulations 2005(2);

(b)any certified copy F4... of an entry in the civil partnership register issued pursuant to regulation 14 of the Civil Partnership (Registration Provisions) Regulations 2005;

(c)any certified copy of a civil partnership document issued pursuant to article 14(3) of the Civil Partnership (Registration Abroad and Certificates) Order 2005(3).

Textual Amendments

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 21 in force at 10.12.2014, see reg. 1

(2)

Regulation 2 of S.I. 2005/3176 provides that “certified copy” means a copy of an entry in the civil partnership register which contains all of the information recorded in that entry; and “certified extract” means a copy of an entry in the civil partnership register which does not include the addresses of the civil partners as recorded in that entry.