The consent of the appropriate persons is required before a young person and another person may register as civil partners of each other.
Schedule 13 contains provisions—
for determining who are the appropriate persons for the purposes of this section (see Part 1 of the Schedule);
for orders dispensing with consent and for recording consents and orders (see Parts 2 and 3 of the Schedule).
Each consent required by subsection (1) must be—
in the prescribed form; and
produced to the registrar before the issue of the civil partnership schedule.
Nothing in this section affects any need to obtain the consent of the High Court before a ward of court and another person may register as civil partners of each other.
In this section and Schedule 13 “young person” means a person who is under 18.