Regulation 25 Applications on alternative ground: evidence about civil partnership

(1)

Section 3B^f1 is amended as follows.

(2)

After subsection (7) insert—

“(7A)
If the applicant is a civil partner, the application must include a statutory declaration as to whether the civil partnership is a civil partnership under the law of England and Wales, of Scotland, or of Northern Ireland, or is an overseas relationship that is treated as a civil partnership by virtue of Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.”.

(3)

In subsection (8)—

(a)

in the words before paragraph (a)—

(i)

after “married” insert “or a civil partner”;

(ii)

after “the marriage” insert “or civil partnership”;

(iii)

after “protected marriage” insert “or a protected civil partnership”;

(b)

in paragraph (a)—

(i)

after “spouse”, where it first occurs, insert “or civil partner”;

(ii)

after “spouse”, in the remaining place it occurs, insert “or partner”;

(c)

in paragraph (b), after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”.

(4)

In subsection (9)—

(a)

after “spouse”, where it first occurs, insert “or civil partner”;

(b)

after “spouse”, in the remaining place it occurs, insert “or partner”.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: Section 3B was added by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Schedule 5, paragraph 19.