{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020-commencement-no-3-saving-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2021/regulation-4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020-commencement-no-3-saving-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2021/regulation-4.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2021/23",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (Commencement No. 3, Saving and Transitional Provision) Regulations 2021",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020-commencement-no-3-saving-and-transitional-provision-regulations-2021",
  "path": "regulation/4",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Transitional provision: overseas relationships",
  "text": "(1) Section 212 of the 2004 Act (meaning of “overseas relationship”) applies for the purpose of determining whether a relationship between persons of different sexes entered into before 1 February 2021 is an overseas relationship as though for subsection (1)(b)(ii) there were substituted—\n“(ii) neither of whom was already a civil partner or lawfully married on the date the relationship concerned was entered into, and\n(iii) neither of whom was a civil partner or lawfully married—\n(aa) immediately before 1 February 2021, or\n(bb) in the case of a relationship that was dissolved or annulled before that date, immediately before the date of dissolution or annulment.”.\n(2) Paragraph (1) has effect in place of article 3 of the Civil Partnership (Overseas Relationships) (Scotland) Order 2005 in relation to any case where a relationship referred to in that paragraph was entered into before 5 December 2005.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 212 is amended by section 2(2) of the Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 and is modified in its application to overseas relationships entered into before 5 December 2005 by S.S.I. 2005/573."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "1 February 2021 is the date on which section 3 of the Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 comes into force, in accordance with regulation 2 of S.S.I. 2020/414."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "S.S.I. 2005/573."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2021/23/regulation/4",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T20:58:00.601274+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."
}