Article 11 Period during which registration may take place
The proposed civil partners may not register as civil partners of each other under the provisions of this Order until the waiting period in relation to each notice of proposed civil partnership has expired.
Subject to paragraph (1), they may register as civil partners of each other by signing the civil partnership register before a registering officer at his office on any day in the applicable period at a time to be set by him.
If they do not register as civil partners before the end of the applicable period—
the notices of proposed civil partnership are void, and
no registering officer may officiate at the signing of the civil partnership register by them.
For the purposes of this article, the applicable period, in relation to two people registering as civil partners of each other, is the period of 12 months beginning with—
the day on which the notices of proposed civil partnerships are recorded, or
if the notices are not recorded on the same day, the earlier of those days.