{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/schedule-2/paragraph-5",
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  "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": "schedule/2/paragraph/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": "Pre-commencement wills not to be revoked by virtue of recognition of pre-commencement relationships as civil partnerships",
  "text": "The formation of a civil partnership treated as having occurred, in relation to a pre-commencement relationship, by section 215(5B) of the 2004 Act (as amended by these Regulations) does not have effect under section 18B of the Wills Act 1837 to revoke a will made before the commencement date.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 2 para. 5 in force at 2.12.2019, see reg. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1837 c. 26. Section 18B was added by the Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 4, paragraph 2."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2019/1458/schedule/2/paragraph/5",
    "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."
}