Amendment of the Civil Partnership Act 2004
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3.—(1) Section 88 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (notice of proposed civil partnership)(1) is amended in accordance with paragraphs (2) and (3).
(2) In subsection (4), after “must” insert “, unless subsection (4A) applies,”.
(3) After subsection (4) insert—
“(4A) This subsection applies where—
(a)the document submitted is accompanied by a multilingual standard form issued by an authority in a Member State of the European Union in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/1191 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and
(b)the district registrar considers that the information included in the multilingual standard form is sufficient for processing the document.”.
(1)