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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-jurisdiction-and-recognition-of-judgments-regulations-2005/regulation-7",
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  "legislation": "ukdsi/2005/0110735323",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Jurisdiction and Recognition of Judgments) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-jurisdiction-and-recognition-of-judgments-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/7",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Recognition of a judgment",
  "text": "(1) Where a judgment is (or has been) given in respect of a civil partnership, that judgment shall, without any special formalities, be recognised in England and Wales or Northern Ireland.\n(2) Any interested party may, in accordance with the procedure set out in rules, apply for a judgment to be, or not to be, recognised.\n(3) Where the recognition of a judgment is raised as an incidental issue in proceedings before the court, that court may determine the issue.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2005/0110735323/regulation/7",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T15:21:55.399998+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."
}