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The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020
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- 2020 No. 1143
- PART 3
- Regulation 18
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18.—(1) A conversion agreement does not have effect as a contract giving rise to legal rights.
(2) No action lies for breach of a conversion agreement, whatever the law applicable to the agreement.
(3) In this regulation “conversion agreement” means an agreement between two people—
(a)to convert their civil partnership into a marriage, or to convert their marriage into a civil partnership, under—
(i)this Part or Part 4 or 5, or
(ii)Part 2, 3 or 4 of the 2014 Regulations, or
(b)to change their civil partnership into a marriage under—
(i)the Marriage Between Civil Partners (Procedure for Change and Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2014, or
(ii)Part 5 of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014.
(4) This regulation does not affect any action commenced before it comes into force.
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