Schedule 1 Specified overseas relationships: opposite-sex relationships
The provision to be inserted as Part 2 of Schedule 20 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is as follows—
“PART 2
Opposite-sex relationships
A relationship is specified for the purposes of section 213(1)(b) (specified relationships between two people who are not of the same sex) if it is registered in a country or territory given in the first column of the table and fits the description given in relation to that country or territory in the second column—
Country or territory Description Andorra uniό estable de parella Argentina unión convivencial Aruba geregistreerd partnerschap Australia: Australian Capital Territory civil partnership Australia: New South Wales a relationship registered under the Relationships Register Act 2010 Australia: Queensland civil partnership Australia: South Australia registered relationship Australia: Tasmania significant relationship Australia: Victoria registered domestic relationship Austria eingetragene Partnerschaft Belgium the relationship referred to as cohabitation légale, wettelijke samenwoning or gesetzliches Zusammenwohnen Bermuda domestic partnership Brazil união estável Canada: Alberta adult interdependent partner Canada: Manitoba the relationship referred to as common-law relationship or as union de fait Canada: Nova Scotia domestic partnership Canada: Quebec union civile Chile unión civil Colombia unión marital de hecho Cyprus politiki symviosi Ecuador unión de hecho Estonia Kooselulepingu Falkland Islands civil partnership France pacte civil de solidarité Gibraltar civil partnership Greece simfono simviosis Isle of Man civil partnership Israel civil union Luxembourg the relationship referred to as partenariat enregistré or eingetragene Partnerschaft Malta civil union Mexico: Campeche sociedad civil de Convivencia Mexico: Coahuila pacto civil de solidaridad Mexico: Mexico City Federal District sociedad de convivencia Mexico: Michoacán sociedad de Convivencia Mexico: Tlaxcala sociedad de convivencia solidaria Netherlands geregistreerd partnerschap New Zealand civil union San Marino unione civile South Africa civil partnership Spain: Balearic Islands pareja estable Spain: Basque Country pareja de hecho Spain: Galicia pareja de hecho United States of America: California domestic partnership United States of America: Colorado civil union United States of America: District of Columbia domestic partnership United States of America: Hawaii civil union United States of America: Illinois civil union United States of America: Maine domestic partnership United States of America: Nevada domestic partnership United States of America: New Jersey domestic partnership United States of America: Washington state registered domestic partnership ”