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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020/section-1",
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  "legislation": "asp/2020/15",
  "legislation_title": "Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-scotland-act-2020",
  "path": "section/1",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Different sex civil partnerships",
  "text": "(1) The Civil Partnership Act 2004 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 1 (civil partnership), in subsection (1) the words “of the same sex” are repealed.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
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      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 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": "S. 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",
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    "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."
}