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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-treatment-of-overseas-relationships-no2-order-2005/article-2",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2005/3284",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Treatment of Overseas Relationships No.2) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/civil-partnership-treatment-of-overseas-relationships-no2-order-2005",
  "path": "article/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) a person is treated as a civil partner by virtue of having registered a recognised overseas relationship under the relevant law before 5th December 2005; and\n(b) he has, before 5th December 2005, made a will,\nsection 18B of the Wills Act 1837 is not to apply to that will.\n(2) Article 4 of the Civil Partnership (Treatment of Overseas Relationships) Order 2005 is revoked.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1837 c. 26. Section 18B inserted by Civil Partnership Act 2004, Schedule 4, paragraphs 1 and 2."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "S.I. 2005/3042"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "excluded",
      "affecting": "uksi/2019/1458",
      "affecting_title": "The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/3284/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T04:44:45.050707+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."
}