{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-scotland-act-2014/section-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-scotland-act-2014/section-26.json",
  "legislation": "asp/2014/5",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-and-civil-partnership-scotland-act-2014",
  "path": "section/26",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Recognition of overseas relationships",
  "text": "(1) The 2004 Act is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 214 (general conditions in relation to recognition of overseas relationships)—\n(a) after paragraph (b) insert—\n“(ba) the relationship is not one of marriage,”, and\n(b) in paragraph (c), for the words from the second “or” to the end substitute “ but are not treated as married ”.\n(3) In schedule 20 to the 2004 Act (specified relationships), the following entries are repealed—\n“\nArgentina\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nBelgium\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nBrazil\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nCanada\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nDenmark\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nIceland\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nMexico: Mexico City Federal District\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nNetherlands\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nNorway\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nPortugal\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nSouth Africa\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nSpain\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nSweden\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: California\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: Connecticut\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: District of Columbia\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: Iowa\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: Massachusetts\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: New Hampshire\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: New York\nmarriage\n”,\n“\nUnited States of America: Vermont\nmarriage\n”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 26 in force at 16.12.2014 by S.S.I. 2014/287, art. 3, Sch. (with art. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/asp/2014/5/section/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T20:14:16.149256+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."
}