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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-act-2004-consequential-amendments-scotland-order-2005/article-19",
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  "legislation": "sdsi/2005/0110697596",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Amendments) (Scotland) Order 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-act-2004-consequential-amendments-scotland-order-2005",
  "path": "article/19",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Local Government Finance Act 1992",
  "text": "In section 77 of the Local Government Finance Act 1992–\n(a) in subsection (1)(a), after “is married to” insert “or in a civil partnership with”; and\n(b) after subsection (3), insert–\n“(4) For the purposes of this section two persons are in a civil partnership if they are two persons of the same gender–\n(a) who have formed a civil partnership; or\n(b) who have not formed a civil partnership but are living together as if civil partners.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "1992 c. 14. Section 77 was amended by S.I. 1992/1203, the Education (Graduate Endowment and Student Support) (Scotland) Act 2001 (asp 6), section 4 and S.S.I. 2001/191."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/sdsi/2005/0110697596/article/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:39:39.293171+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."
}