Section 87 Appointment of authorised registrars
Scotland
For the purpose of affording reasonable facilities throughout Scotland for F1civil registration as civil partners, the Registrar General—
(a)
is to appoint such number of district registrars as he thinks necessary, and
(b)
may, in respect of any district for which he has made an appointment under paragraph (a), appoint one or more assistant registrars,
as persons who may carry out such registration (in this Part referred to as “authorised registrars”).
Annotations
Textual amendments
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Word in s. 87 inserted (16.12.2014) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), ss. 24(4), 36; S.S.I. 2014/287, art. 3, sch.