# Civil Partnership (Registration Abroad and Certificates) Order 2005, Article 5: Notice of proposed civil partnership


(1) A person may give signed notice to a civil partnership officer of his and another person’s intention to register as civil partners of each other if both persons have been resident within the consular district of the civil partnership officer for a period of seven days immediately preceding the giving of the notice.
(2) Two people may not register as civil partners of each other under this Order unless one of them has given signed notice to the civil partnership officer at least fourteen days previously.
(3) The signed notice referred to in paragraph (1) shall contain the following information for both people who intend to register the civil partnership—
(a) name,
(b) surname,
(c) nationality,
(d) age,
(e) residence,
(f) the part of the United Kingdom which for the purposes of article 7(1) the proposed civil partners have jointly elected shall be the relevant part for the civil partnership registration.
(4) A notice of proposed civil partnership must also include a solemn declaration, made and signed by the person giving the notice—
(a) at the time when the notice is given, and
(b) in the presence of a civil partnership officer,
and the civil partnership officer must attest the declaration by signature.
(5) The solemn declaration referred to in paragraph (4) shall include the following information—
(a) whether he has throughout the past seven days been resident within the district of the civil partnership officer,
(b) whether there is any impediment of kindred or affinity, or other lawful hindrance to the formation of the civil partnership.
(6) The civil partnership officer may demand evidence of any of the information contained in the signed notice referred to in paragraph (1) before posting that notice.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/2761/article/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-registration-abroad-and-certificates-order-2005/article-5
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