{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-overseas-relationships-order-2005/article-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-overseas-relationships-order-2005/article-2.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3135",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004-overseas-relationships-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Additions to Schedule 20 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "text": "In Schedule 20 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (meaning of overseas relationship: specified relationships), in the table—\n(a) before the first entry relating to Belgium insert—\nAndorra\nuniό estable de parella\nAustralia: Tasmania\nsignificant relationship\n(b) after the second entry relating to Belgium insert—\nCanada\nmarriage\n(c) after the entry relating to Iceland insert—\nLuxembourg\nthe relationship referred to as partenariat enregistré or eingetragene Partnerschaft\n(d) after the second entry relating to Netherlands insert—\nNew Zealand\ncivil union\n(e) after the entry relating to Norway insert—\nSpain\nmarriage\n(f) after the entry relating to Sweden insert—\nUnited States of America: California\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Connecticut\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: Maine\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Massachusetts\nmarriage\nUnited States of America: New Jersey\ndomestic partnership",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3135/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:46:55.533227+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}