{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/regulation-15",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/regulation-15.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": "regulation/15",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "15",
  "heading": "Parental responsibility of civil partners",
  "text": "(1) The Children Act 1989 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 2, in subsections (1), (2) and (3), after “married to” insert “, or civil partners of,”.\n(3) In section 4, in subsection (1), in the words before paragraph (a), after “married to” insert “, or civil partners of,”.\n(4) In section 105, in subsection (2), after “married to” insert “, or civil partners of,”.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 15 in force at 2.12.2019, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1989 c. 41."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "Section 2 was amended by the Adoption and Children Act 2002, section 111(5); and the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 2008, Schedule 6, paragraph 26."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "Section 4(1)(a) was substituted by the Adoption and Children Act 2002, section 111(2)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1458/regulation/15",
    "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."
}