{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/regulation-25",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/regulation-25.json",
  "legislation": "ukdsi/2019/9780111190784",
  "legislation_title": "The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019",
  "path": "regulation/25",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "25",
  "heading": "Applications on alternative ground: evidence about civil partnership",
  "text": "(1) Section 3B is amended as follows.\n(2) After subsection (7) insert—\n“(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.”.\n(3) In subsection (8)—\n(a) in the words before paragraph (a)—\n(i) after “married” insert “or a civil partner”;\n(ii) after “the marriage” insert “or civil partnership”;\n(iii) after “protected marriage” insert “or a protected civil partnership”;\n(b) in paragraph (a)—\n(i) after “spouse”, where it first occurs, insert “or civil partner”;\n(ii) after “spouse”, in the remaining place it occurs, insert “or partner”;\n(c) in paragraph (b), after “spouse” insert “or civil partner”.\n(4) In subsection (9)—\n(a) after “spouse”, where it first occurs, insert “or civil partner”;\n(b) after “spouse”, in the remaining place it occurs, insert “or partner”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Section 3B was added by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Schedule 5, paragraph 19."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111190784/regulation/25",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-30T14:59:17.448930+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."
}