{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-87",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-87.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "section/87",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "87",
  "heading": "Appointment of authorised registrars",
  "text": "For the purpose of affording reasonable facilities throughout Scotland for civil registration as civil partners, the Registrar General—\n(a) is to appoint such number of district registrars as he thinks necessary, and\n(b) may, in respect of any district for which he has made an appointment under paragraph (a), appoint one or more assistant registrars,\nas persons who may carry out such registration (in this Part referred to as “authorised registrars”).",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/section/87",
    "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."
}