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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-scotland-act-2014-commencement-no-1-order-2014/article-2",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/121",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (Commencement No. 1) Order 2014",
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  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Appointed day",
  "text": "The appointed day on which the following sections of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 come into force is 21st May 2014—\n(a) section 7 (reset: abolition of defence);\n(b) section 19 (marriage outside Scotland: evidence of dissolution of former civil partnership);\n(c) section 20 (religious marriages: solemnisation by Church of Scotland deacons);\n(d) section 22 (second marriage ceremony: form of endorsement);\n(e) section 23 (sheriff court jurisdiction in relation to declarator of marriage);\n(f) section 27 (dissolution of civil partnership: evidence);\n(g) section 32 (provision of certain information to district registrars).",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2014/121/article/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:35:16.628494+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."
}