{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2019/1458",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Civil Partnership, England And Wales\nMade 5th November 2019\nComing into force in accordance with regulation 1(2)\nThe Secretary of State makes these Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 2(1), (3), (5) and (7) and 5(2), (4) and (5) of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019, section 64(1) and (2) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, and section 17(2) and (3) of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.\nThe Secretary of State has carried out consultation in accordance with section 2(6) of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019.\nThe Welsh Ministers have been consulted in accordance with section 64(6) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008.\nA draft of this instrument has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament in accordance with section 5(7) of the Civil Partnerships, Marriages and Deaths (Registration etc) Act 2019, section 62(3) of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, and section 18(2) of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2019 c. 12."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2008 c. 22."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "2013 c. 30."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "Section 64(6) was amended by the Wales Act 2017 (c. 4), Schedule 6, paragraph 72."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1458/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:35:37.436209+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."
}