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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-27",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-27.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "section/27",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "27",
  "heading": "Period during which registration may take place",
  "text": "(1) If a Registrar General’s licence has been issued under section 25, the proposed civil partners may register as civil partners by signing it at any time within 1 month from the day on which the notice of proposed civil partnership was given.\n(2) If they do not register as civil partners by signing the licence within the 1 month period—\n(a) the notice of proposed civil partnership and the licence are void, and\n(b) no civil partnership registrar may officiate at the signing of the licence by them.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/section/27",
    "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."
}