Regulation 14 Searches of indexes of civil partnership records kept by registration authorities and issue of copiesI1

Every registration authority shall cause indexes of entries in the civil partnership register relating to all civil partnerships formed in its area to be made and to be kept with other records in its register office.^f1

Subject to regulations 15 and 16, any person shall be entitled at any time when the register office is required to be open for the transaction of public business to search the indexes, and to have a certified copy or a certified extract of any entry in the civil partnership register on payment to the registration authority of a fee prescribed under section 34(1) of the 2004 Act.

The registration authority shall cause all certified copies or certified extracts given by the registration authority to be signed by a person authorised by that registration authority to issue the certified copy or certified extract.

Any certified copy or certified extract signed by a person authorised by the registration authority shall be received in evidence of the civil partnership to which it relates without any further proof of the entry.

No certified copy or certified extract purporting to have been given by the registration authority shall be of any force or effect unless it is issued on a form supplied by the Registrar General and signed by a person authorised by the registration authority.

The registration authority shall account to the Registrar General for all forms for certified copies and certified extracts supplied by her in such manner and at such times as she may require.