{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-20/part-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/schedule-20/part-2.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/20/part/2",
  "kind": "part",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Opposite-sex relationships",
  "text": "A relationship is specified for the purposes of section 213(1)(b) (specified relationships between two people who are not of the same sex) (meaning of “overseas relationship”) if it is registered in a country or territory given in the first column of the table and fits the description given in relation to that country or territory in the second column—\nCountry or territory\nDescription\nAndorra\nuniό estable de parella (stable couple union)\nArgentina\nunión convivencial\nArgentina: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires\nunión civil (civil union)\nAruba\ngeregistreerd partnerschap\nAustralia: Australian Capital Territory\ncivil partnership\nAustralia: New South Wales\na relationship registered under the Relationships Register Act 2010\nAustralia: Queensland\ncivil partnership\nAustralia: South Australia\nregistered relationship\nAustralia: Tasmania\nsignificant relationship\nAustralia: Victoria\nregistered domestic relationship\nAustria\neingetragene Partnerschaft (registered partnership)\nBelgium\nthe relationship referred to as cohabitation légale, wettelijke samenwoning or gesetzliches Zusammenwohnen (legal cohabitation)\nBermuda\ndomestic partnership\nBrazil\nunião estável (stable union)\nCanada: Alberta\nadult interdependent partner\nCanada: Manitoba\nthe relationship referred to as common-law relationship or as union de fait\nCanada: Nova Scotia\ndomestic partnership\nCanada: Quebec\nunion civile the relationship referred to as union civile or as civil union\nChile\nunión civil acuerdo de unión civil (civil union agreement)\nColombia\nunión marital de hecho unión de hecho (de facto union)\nCyprus\npolitiki symviosi civil cohabitation\nEcuador\nunión de hecho unión civil (civil union)\nEstonia\nKooselulepingu\nthe Falkland Islands\ncivil partnership\nFrance\npacte civil de solidarité (civil solidarity pact)\nGibraltar\ncivil partnership\nGreece\nsimfono simviosis σύμφωνο συμβίωσης (cohabitation agreement)\nHungary\nbejegyzett élettársi kapcsolat (registered partnership)\nIsle of Man\ncivil partnership\nIsrael\ncivil union\nLuxembourg\nthe relationship referred to as partenariat enregistré or eingetragene Partnerschaft(registered partnership)\nMalta\ncivil union\nMexico: Campeche\nsociedad civil de Convivencia (civil cohabitation union)\nMexico: Coahuila\npacto civil de solidaridad (civil solidarity pact)\nMexico: Mexico City Federal District\nsociedad de convivencia (cohabitation arrangement)\nMexico: Michoacán\nsociedad de Convivencia (cohabitation arrangement)\nMexico: Tlaxcala\nsociedad de convivencia solidaria (permanent cohabitation arrangement)\nNetherlands\ngeregistreerd partnerschap (registered partnership)\nNew Zealand\ncivil union\nSan Marino\nunione civile (civil union)\nSouth Africa\ncivil partnership\nSpain: Balearic Islands\npareja estable\nSpain: Basque Country\npareja de hecho\nSpain: Galicia\npareja de hecho\nUnited States of America: California\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Colorado\nthe relationship between designated beneficiaries\nUnited States of America: Colorado\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: District of Columbia\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Hawaii\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: Illinois\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: Maine\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Nevada\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: New Jersey\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Washington\nstate registered domestic partnership",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 20 Pt. 2 inserted: (E.W.) (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1; (N.I.) (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 17(7)(c) (with regs. 6-9); and (S.) (1.2.2021 for specified purposes, 1.6.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 15), s. 16, sch. 1; S.S.I. 2020/414, reg. 2(1)(a)(2); S.S.I. 2021/23, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Additional words inserted (S.) (1.2.2021 for specified purposes, 1.6.2021 in so far as not already in force) as part of the insertion of Sch. 20 Pt. 2 by Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 15), s. 16, sch. 1; S.S.I. 2020/414, reg. 2(1)(a)(2); S.S.I. 2021/23, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words omitted (S.) (1.2.2021 for specified purposes, 1.6.2021 in so far as not already in force) since they were not included as part of the insertion of Sch. 20 Pt. 2 by Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 15), s. 16, sch. 1; S.S.I. 2020/414, reg. 2(1)(a)(2); 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/schedule/20/part/2",
    "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."
}