The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 No. 1143

PART 3 Civil Partnership and Marriage: Conversion from one into the other

Duty to register a marriage, or record a civil partnership, resulting from a conversion

12.—(1) Where a civil partnership is converted under this Part into a marriage—

(a) if the conversion is a conversion before an officiant, a registrar must register the marriage as soon as practicable after a registrar receives the signed conversion declaration;

(b) in any other case, the registrar who signed the conversion declaration in accordance with regulation 10 must cause the marriage to be registered as soon as practicable after the signing.

(2) Where a marriage is converted under this Part into a civil partnership, the registrar who signed the conversion declaration in accordance with regulation 10 must cause the civil partnership to be recorded as soon as practicable after the signing.