{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-90",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004/section-90.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/33",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-act-2004",
  "path": "section/90",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "90",
  "heading": "Publicisation",
  "text": "(1) Where notices of a proposed civil partnership are received by the district registrar , he must, as soon as practicable after such receipt(or, if the two documents are not received on the same day, after the first is received), publicise the relevant information and send it to the Registrar General who must also publicise it.\n(2) “The relevant information” means—\n(a) the names of the intended civil partners, and\n(b) the date on which it is intended to register them as civil partners of each other, being a date more than 28 days after publicisation by the district registrar under subsection (1).\n(3) Paragraph (b) of subsection (2) is subject to section 91(1) .\n(4) The manner in which and means by which relevant information is to be publicised are to be prescribed.",
  "extent": "S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 52(3)(a), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (16.12.2014) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), ss. 24(7)(a), 36; S.S.I. 2014/287, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 52(3)(b), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 90(1) substituted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 52(3)(c), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(1) substituted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 52(3)(d), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, Sch. 1"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in s. 90(2)(b) substituted (1.3.2015) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), ss. 24(7)(b), 36; S.S.I. 2015/14, art. 2, sch. (with art. 3(2))"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Word in s. 90(3) substituted (16.12.2014) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), ss. 24(7)(c), 36; S.S.I. 2014/287, art. 3, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 90 wholly in force at 5.12.2005; s. 90 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 263; s. 90(4) in force at 14.9.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/428, art. 2, Sch.; s. 90(1)-(3) in force at 5.12.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/604, art. 2(b)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/33/section/90",
    "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."
}