{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-registration-and-records-amendment-regulations-2021/introduction",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-registration-and-records-amendment-regulations-2021/introduction.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2021/410",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Registration and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-registration-and-records-amendment-regulations-2021",
  "path": "introduction",
  "kind": "introduction",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Civil Partnership, England And Wales\nRegistration Of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Etc., England And Wales\nMade 30th March 2021\nComing into force 4th May 2021\nThe Registrar General makes the following Regulations with the approval of the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 14(2), 25(5), 36(1) and (2)(a), (c), (f) and (g) and 258 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and paragraph 11A(1)(b) and (2)(b) of Schedule 3 to the Gender Recognition Act 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 33; section 36(2)(g) was inserted by section 99(2) of the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20)."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2004 c. 7; paragraph 11A was inserted by paragraph 9(2) of Schedule 5 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (c. 30). “Qualifying civil partnership” is defined in paragraph 11A(3), which was amended by regulation 34 of the Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2021/410/introduction",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:15:25.053562+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."
}