{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-minimum-age-act-2022/section-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-minimum-age-act-2022/section-3.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2022/28",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act 2022",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-minimum-age-act-2022",
  "path": "section/3",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Civil partnership: increase of minimum age to 18",
  "text": "(1) The Civil Partnership Act 2004 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 3 (eligibility), in subsection (1), in paragraph (c), for “16” substitute “18”.\n(3) Omit section 4 (parental etc. consent where proposed civil partner under 18).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 3 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 7(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 3 in force at 27.2.2023 by S.I. 2023/88, reg. 2 (with regs. 3-17)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/28/section/3",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:56:45.414721+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."
}