# Civil Partnership (Registration Abroad and Certificates) Order 2005, Article 14: Transmission of documents to UK


(1) The civil partnership officer shall retain one copy of each civil partnership document registered by him and shall also transmit a certified copy of each such document to the Registrar General for England and Wales.
(2) Where the Registrar General for England and Wales receives a copy of a civil partnership document sent to him under paragraph (1) and the civil partners have elected that the relevant part of the United Kingdom under articles 5(3)(f) or 13(2) is to be Scotland or Northern Ireland, he shall send a certified copy of the civil partnership document to the appropriate Registrar General.
(3) Any person shall be entitled to obtain from the Registrar General for England and Wales, from the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland or from the Registrar General in Northern Ireland, a certified copy of a civil partnership document received by him under paragraphs (1) or (2) on payment of a fee in respect of the provision of the copy and any necessary search for the document.
(4) The fee payable under paragraph (3) shall be the same fee as is for the time being charged by that Registrar General for the provision of a certified copy of, and any necessary search for, an entry in the records in his custody of civil partnerships.
(5) A certified copy provided by the Registrar General under paragraph (3) of an entry in the register shall be sufficient evidence of the formation of a civil partnership.
(6) In this article, “the appropriate Registrar General” means the Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages for Scotland, or the Registrar General in Northern Ireland, as the case may be.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2761/article/14 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-registration-abroad-and-certificates-order-2005/article-14
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