Regulation 4 Transitional provision: overseas relationships

Section 212 of the 2004 Act (meaning of “overseas relationship”)^f1 applies for the purpose of determining whether a relationship between persons of different sexes entered into before 1 February 2021^f2 is an overseas relationship as though for subsection (1)(b)(ii) there were substituted—

“(ii)

neither of whom was already a civil partner or lawfully married on the date the relationship concerned was entered into, and

(iii)

neither of whom was a civil partner or lawfully married—

(aa)

immediately before 1 February 2021, or

(bb)

in the case of a relationship that was dissolved or annulled before that date, immediately before the date of dissolution or annulment.”.

Paragraph (1) has effect in place of article 3 of the Civil Partnership (Overseas Relationships) (Scotland) Order 2005^f3 in relation to any case where a relationship referred to in that paragraph was entered into before 5 December 2005.