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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-registration-provisions-regulations-2005/regulation-16",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3176",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Registration Provisions) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-registration-provisions-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Unrestricted access to civil partnership records",
  "text": "An applicant for a certified copy shall be entitled to such a certificate without being required to provide the full addresses of both civil partners as recorded in the entry of the register, on and after the first of January in the year following the 50th: anniversary of the formation of the civil partnership.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 5.12.2005, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "uksi/2021/410",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Registration and Records) (Amendment) Regulations 2021"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3176/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:45:42.258467+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."
}