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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-armed-forces-order-2005/article-7",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3188",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Armed Forces) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-armed-forces-order-2005",
  "path": "article/7",
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  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Parental etc. consent where the proposed civil partner is under 18",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of section 211(2)(c) section 54(4)(ii) and section 177(4)(ii) of the Act it shall be a requirement that where either civil partner is under the age of 18, and the proposed civil partners have elected for the purposes of article 5 and article 6(2)(g) of this Order the part of the United Kingdom which shall be the relevant part for the civil partnership registration is either England and Wales or Northern Ireland then, save in the case of an election in respect of England and Wales where the proposed civil partner under the age of 18 is a surviving civil partner or widow or widower, the written consent of appropriate persons is required. The written consent shall be given to the registering officer before a person under the age of 18 and another person may register as civil partners of each other. Determination of appropriate persons shall be decided in accordance with sections 4, 145 and Schedules 2 and 13 of the Act as the law on appropriate persons to give consent is applied to England and Wales and Northern Ireland.\n(2) Where the consent of appropriate persons is required under this article, the necessary declaration under article 6(3) of this Order must also state in relation to each appropriate person that that person’s consent has been obtained or state that no person exists whose consent is required to a civil partnership between the proposed civil partner under 18 and another person.\n(3) On request by personal attendance of any person whose consent is required, the registering officer shall produce the notice given under article 6(1) above. Such person may forbid the formation of the civil partnership referred to in the notice at any time before the proposed civil partners have registered as civil partners by writing “forbidden” upon the notice, together with his name and address and a statement of his capacity to so forbid. If forbidden, the notice and all proceedings shall be void.",
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  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3188/article/7",
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  "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."
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