{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-124B",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992/section-124B.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/1992/5",
  "legislation_title": "Social Security Administration Act 1992",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/social-security-administration-act-1992",
  "path": "section/124B",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "124B",
  "heading": "Provisions relating to civil partnership: Scotland",
  "text": "(1) Where the civil partnership of a person is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes mentioned in section 124(1) above, any person, on presenting to a district registrar a request in the approved manner in that behalf, and on payment of the sum of £10.00, shall be entitled to obtain a copy, certified by the registrar, of the entry in the civil partnership register of the particulars of the civil partnership.\n(2) “The approved manner” means in such form and containing such particulars as may be approved by the Registrar General for Scotland.\n(3) Forms for making a request under subsection (1) shall, on request, be supplied without charge by district registrars.\n(4) “Civil partnership register” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 124A, 124B inserted (5.12.2005) by The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/3129), art. 1, Sch. 1 para. 4(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in s. 124B inserted (1.10.2006) by Local Electoral Administration and Registration Services (Scotland) Act 2006 (asp 14), ss. 53(2), 63(2); S.S.I. 2006/469, art. 2, sch. 1 (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sum in s. 124B(1) substituted (1.1.2011) by virtue of The Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Fees) (Scotland) Order 2010 (S.S.I. 2010/428), arts. 1(1), 2, sch."
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Ss. 124-124B modified by Pension Schemes Act 1993 (c. 48), s. 167(5) (as substituted (5.12.2006) by S.I. 2005/3129, Sch. 1 para. 5)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1992/5/section/124B",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:36:26.977425+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."
}