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Paragraph 2 Magistrates' Courts (Guardianship of Minors) Rules 1974

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

In rule 5—

(a)

in the title, after marriage insert “or formation of civil partnership”;

(b)

after paragraph 1 insert—

“(1A)

An application for the consent of the court to the formation of a civil partnership by a child under paragraph 3, 4 or 10 of Schedule 2 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (obtaining consent etc.) may be made, either orally or in writing, to a justice of the peace.”;

(c)

in paragraph (2)—

(i)

after “paragraph (1)” insert “or (1A)”; and

(ii)

after “marriage” insert “or to the civil partnership, as the case may be”; and

(d)

in paragraph (4), after “paragraph (1)” insert “or (1A)”.