{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2006/2",
  "legislation_title": "Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/family-law-scotland-act-2006",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In section 86 (eligibility to register in Scotland as civil partners)—\n(a) in subsection (2), for “subsections (3) and (4)” there shall be substituted “ subsection (3) ”; and\n(b) for subsections (4) and (5) there shall be substituted—\n“(4) Paragraph 2 of Schedule 10 has effect subject to the modifications specified in subsection (5) in the case of a person (here the “relevant person”) whose gender has become the acquired gender under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c. 7).\n(5) The reference in that paragraph to—\n(a) a former wife of the relevant person includes any former husband of the relevant person, and\n(b) a former husband of the relevant person includes any former wife of the relevant person.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 2 in force at 4.5.2006 by S.S.I. 2006/212, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2006/2/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:16:18.094952+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."
}