{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/schedule-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/draft-civil-partnership-opposite-sex-couples-regulations-2019/schedule-1.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": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Specified overseas relationships: opposite-sex relationships",
  "text": "The provision to be inserted as Part 2 of Schedule 20 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is as follows—\n“PART 2\nOpposite-sex relationships\nA 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—\nCountry or territory\nDescription\nAndorra\nuniό estable de parella\nArgentina\nunión convivencial\nAruba\ngeregistreerd partnerschap\nAustralia: Australian Capital Territory\ncivil partnership\nAustralia: New South Wales\na relationship registered under the Relationships Register Act 2010\nAustralia: Queensland\ncivil partnership\nAustralia: South Australia\nregistered relationship\nAustralia: Tasmania\nsignificant relationship\nAustralia: Victoria\nregistered domestic relationship\nAustria\neingetragene Partnerschaft\nBelgium\nthe relationship referred to as cohabitation légale, wettelijke samenwoning or gesetzliches Zusammenwohnen\nBermuda\ndomestic partnership\nBrazil\nunião estável\nCanada: Alberta\nadult interdependent partner\nCanada: Manitoba\nthe relationship referred to as common-law relationship or as union de fait\nCanada: Nova Scotia\ndomestic partnership\nCanada: Quebec\nunion civile\nChile\nunión civil\nColombia\nunión marital de hecho\nCyprus\npolitiki symviosi\nEcuador\nunión de hecho\nEstonia\nKooselulepingu\nFalkland Islands\ncivil partnership\nFrance\npacte civil de solidarité\nGibraltar\ncivil partnership\nGreece\nsimfono simviosis\nIsle of Man\ncivil partnership\nIsrael\ncivil union\nLuxembourg\nthe relationship referred to as partenariat enregistré or eingetragene Partnerschaft\nMalta\ncivil union\nMexico: Campeche\nsociedad civil de Convivencia\nMexico: Coahuila\npacto civil de solidaridad\nMexico: Mexico City Federal District\nsociedad de convivencia\nMexico: Michoacán\nsociedad de Convivencia\nMexico: Tlaxcala\nsociedad de convivencia solidaria\nNetherlands\ngeregistreerd partnerschap\nNew Zealand\ncivil union\nSan Marino\nunione civile\nSouth Africa\ncivil partnership\nSpain: Balearic Islands\npareja estable\nSpain: Basque Country\npareja de hecho\nSpain: Galicia\npareja de hecho\nUnited States of America: California\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Colorado\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: District of Columbia\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Hawaii\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: Illinois\ncivil union\nUnited States of America: Maine\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Nevada\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: New Jersey\ndomestic partnership\nUnited States of America: Washington\nstate registered domestic partnership\n”",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukdsi/2019/9780111190784/schedule/1",
    "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."
}