# Civil Partnership Act 2004, Paragraph 1

Extent: N.I.

Column 2 of the table specifies the appropriate persons (or person) to give consent to a young person whose circumstances fall within column 1 and who intends to register as the civil partner of another—
Case
Appropriate persons
1 The circumstances do not fall within any of items 2 to 4.
Each of the following—
(a)any parent of the young person who has parental responsibility for him, and
(b)any guardian of the young person.
2 A care order has effect with respect to the young person.
Each of the following—
(a)the Health and Social Care trust designated in the order, and
(b)any parent or guardian mentioned in item 1.
3 A residence order has effect with respect to the young person.
Each of the persons with whom the young person lives, or is to live, as a result of the order.
4 The circumstances do not fall within item 2 or 3, but a residence order had effect with respect to the young person immediately before he reached 16.
The persons with whom the young person lived, or was to live, as a result of the order.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/schedule/13/paragraph/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-13/paragraph-1
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