{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "An Act to make provision for and in connection with civil partnership.\n[18th November 2004]\nBe it enacted by the Queen’s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Act power to apply (with modifications) conferred (S.) (1.9.2014) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), ss. 30(5)(b), 36; S.S.I. 2014/212, art. 2, sch. (as amended (1.9.2014) by S.S.I. 2014/218, art. 2(3), sch.)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Act: power to amend conferred (E.W.) (26.5.2019) by Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019 (c. 12), s. 2(1) (with s. 2(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Act modified (N.I.) (7.12.2020) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Northern Ireland) (No. 2) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1143), reg. 15(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C4",
      "text": "Act: power to modify conferred (1.6.2021) by Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 15), ss. 4(2)(c), 16; S.S.I. 2021/23, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:16:53.191982+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."
}