PART 5Conversion abroad of Marriage into Civil Partnership: Armed Forces

Interpretation of Part 526.

In this Part—

(a)

“authorised person”, in relation to a conversion under this Part in a country or territory outside the United Kingdom, means a person authorised by the commanding officer of any of Her Majesty’s forces in that country or territory to conduct that conversion or conversions under this Part generally, but a chaplain serving in any of Her Majesty’s forces cannot be an authorised person for the purposes of this Part;

(b)

“conversion declaration” has the meaning given by regulation 30;

(c)

“Her Majesty’s forces” do not include any force of a country, other than the United Kingdom, that is a member of the Commonwealth;

(d)

“relevant civilian” means a civilian subject to service discipline (within the meaning of the Armed Forces Act 200625) who performs in support of Her Majesty’s forces any of the following functions: administrative, executive, judicial, clerical, typing, duplicating, machine operating, paper keeping, managerial, professional, scientific, experimental, technical, industrial or labouring functions;

(e)

a reference to a country or territory includes (except in paragraph (c)) a reference to the waters of a country or territory;

(f)

a reference to Her Majesty’s forces serving in a country or territory includes a reference to such forces serving in a ship in the waters of a country or territory;

(g)

a reference to a relevant civilian employed in a country or territory includes a reference to such a civilian employed in a ship in the waters of a country or territory.