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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriages-and-civil-partnerships-fees-scotland-regulations-2005/note",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2005/556",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriages-and-civil-partnerships-fees-scotland-regulations-2005",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Births, Deaths, Marriages and Divorces (Fees) (Scotland) Regulations 1998 to raise the fee for the submission of a marriage notice from £20 to £25 (regulation 3).\nThe Regulations also set fees for the submission of a notice of proposed civil partnership and for a civil partnership registration (regulation 4 and Schedule 1). They set fees for searches and the issuing of extracts of entries in the civil partnership register and the Register of Dissolutions of Civil Partnership (regulations 5 to 8 and Schedules 2 to 3).",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2005/556/note",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T22:23:20.296562+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."
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