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Section 7: The civil partnership document

Civil Partnership Act 2004 · 2004 c. 33View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 2: Civil partnership: England and Wales — Chapter 1: Registration

In this Part “the civil partnership document” means—

in relation to the special procedure, a Registrar General’s licence, and
in relation to any other procedure, a civil partnership schedule.

Before two people are entitled to register as civil partners of each other—

the civil partnership document must be delivered to the civil partnership registrar, and
the civil partnership registrar may then ask them for any information required (under section 2(4)) to be recorded in the register.

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