{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020/schedule-1/paragraph-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020/schedule-1/paragraph-1.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2020/15",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "The following is the text to be inserted as Part 2 of schedule 20 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004—\n“ PART 2\nSpecified relationships: different sex couples\n1 A relationship is specified for the purposes of section 213(1)(b) (meaning of “overseas relationship”) if it is registered in a country or territory given in the first column of the table and fits the description given in relation to that country or territory in the second column—\nCountry or territory\nDescription\nAndorra\nunió estable de parella (stable couple union)\nArgentina: Autonomous City of Buenos Aires\nunión civil (civil union)\nAustralia: Australian Capital Territory\ncivil partnership\nAustralia: New South Wales\na relationship registered under the Relationships Register Act 2010\nAustralia: Queensland\ncivil partnership\nAustralia: South Australia\nregistered relationship\nAustralia: Tasmania\nsignificant relationship\nAustralia: Victoria\nregistered domestic relationship\nAustria\neingetragene Partnerschaft (registered partnership)\nBelgium\nthe relationship referred to as cohabitation légale, wettelijke samenwoning or gesetzliches zusammenwohnen (legal cohabitation)\nBermuda\ndomestic partnership\nBrazil\nunião estável (stable union)\nCanada: Manitoba\nthe relationship referred to as common-law relationship or as union de fait\nCanada: Nova Scotia\ndomestic partnership\nCanada: Quebec\nthe relationship referred to as union civile or as civil union\nChile\nacuerdo de unión civil (civil union agreement)\nColombia\nunión de hecho (de facto union)\nCyprus\ncivil cohabitation\nEcuador\nunión civil (civil union)\nthe Falkland Islands\ncivil partnership\nFrance\npacte civil de solidarité (civil solidarity pact)\nGibraltar\ncivil partnership\nGreece\nσύμφωνο συμβίωσης (cohabitation agreement)\nHungary\nbejegyzett élettársi kapcsolat (registered partnership)\nIsle of Man\ncivil partnership\nIsrael\ncivil union\nLuxembourg\nthe relationship referred to as partenariat enregistré or eingetragene Partnerschaft (registered partnership)\nMalta\ncivil union\nMexico: Campeche\nsociedad civil de conviviencia (civil cohabitation union)\nMexico: Coahuila\npacto civil de solidaridad (civil solidarity pact)\nMexico: Mexico City Federal District\nsociedad de conviviencia (cohabitation arrangement)\nMexico: Michoacan\nsociedad de conviviencia (cohabitation arrangement)\nMexico: Tlaxcala\nsociedad de conviviencia solidaria (permanent cohabitation arrangement)\nNetherlands\ngeregistreerd partnerschap (registered partnership)\nNew Zealand\ncivil union\nSan Marino\nunione civile (civil union)\nSouth Africa\ncivil partnership\nUnited States of America: California\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Colorado\nthe relationship between designated beneficiaries\nUnited States of America: Colorado\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: District of Columbia\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Hawaii\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: Illinois\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: Maine\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Nevada\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: New Jersey\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Washington\nstate registered domestic partnership\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 1.2.2021 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2020/414, reg. 2(1)(a)(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 1 in force at 1.6.2021 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2021/23, reg. 2, sch. (with reg. 3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2020/15/schedule/1/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:12:44.445560+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."
}