{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/regulation-33",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/regulation-33.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/33",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": "Amendment of definition relating to civil partnership to include overseas relationships",
  "text": "In section 25, in the definition of “protected civil partnership”, for the words from “means” to the end substitute—\n“means—\n(a) a civil partnership under the law of England or Wales, or\n(b) an overseas relationship that is treated as a civil partnership by virtue of Chapter 2 of Part 5 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004,\nand “protected overseas relationship” means a protected civil partnership within paragraph (b),”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "The definition of “protected civil partnership” was inserted by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, Schedule 5, paragraph 14(a)."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111190784/regulation/33",
    "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."
}