{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-239",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-239.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "section/239",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "239",
  "heading": "Commanding officers' certificates for Part 2 purposes",
  "text": "(1) Her Majesty may by Order in Council make provision in relation to cases where—\n(a) two people wish to register as civil partners of each other in England and Wales (under Chapter 1 of Part 2), and\n(b) one of them (“A”) is an officer, seaman or marine borne on the books of one of Her Majesty's ships at sea and the other is resident in England and Wales,\nfor the issue to A, by the captain or other officer in command of the ship, of a certificate of no impediment.\n(2) The Order may provide for the issue of the certificate to be subject to the giving of such notice and the making of such declarations as may be prescribed.\n(3) A certificate of no impediment is a certificate that no legal impediment to the formation of the civil partnership has been shown to the . . . officer issuing the certificate to exist.\n(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 239(1) substituted (21.7.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Amendments to Registration Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2000), arts. 1(c), 3, Sch. para. 17(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 239(1) substituted (21.7.2005) by The Civil Partnership (Amendments to Registration Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2000), arts. 1(c), 3, Sch. para. 17(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 239(3) omitted (21.7.2005) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Amendments to Registration Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2000), arts. 1(c), 3, Sch. para. 17(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "S. 239(4) omitted (21.7.2005) by virtue of The Civil Partnership (Amendments to Registration Provisions) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2000), arts. 1(c), 3, Sch. para. 17(4)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/section/239",
    "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."
}