The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005

Savings Banks Act 1887

1.  After section 10 of the Savings Banks Act 1887(1) insert—

“Civil partnership certificates: England and Wales

10A— (1) This section applies, for the purposes of the Acts relating to the National Savings Bank and the Government Annuities Act 1929, where the formation of a civil partnership by—

(a) a depositor in the National Savings Bank, or

(b) a person insured under the 1929 Act,

is recorded in the register kept under section 30 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.

(2) The registration authority for the area in which the civil partnership was formed must, on an application made in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, give the applicant, for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1), a certified copy of such entries in the register as are prescribed by regulations made under section 36 of the 2004 Act.

(3) “The prescribed manner” means—

(a) in accordance with any regulations made under section 36 of the 2004 Act, and

(b) in such form as is approved by the Registrar General for England and Wales.

(4) “The prescribed fee” means any fee prescribed under section 34(1) of the 2004 Act.

Civil partnership certificates: Scotland

10B— (1) This section applies, for the purposes of the Acts relating to the National Savings Bank and the Government Annuities Act 1929, where particulars of the formation of a civil partnership by—

(a) a depositor in the National Savings Bank, or

(b) a person insured under the 1929 Act,

have been entered in a register under section 95(2) of the 2004 Act.

(2) The district registrar must, on an application made in such manner as is approved by the Registrar General for Scotland, give the applicant, for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1), a certificate of the formation of the civil partnership.

Civil partnership certificates: Northern Ireland

10C— (1) This section applies, for the purposes of the Acts relating to the National Savings Bank and the Government Annuities Act 1929, where the formation of a civil partnership by—

(a) a depositor in the National Savings Bank, or

(b) a person insured under the 1929 Act,

is recorded in a register kept by virtue of section 159(1) of the 2004 Act.

(2) The Registrar General for Northern Ireland or a registrar or deputy registrar of civil partnerships appointed under section 152(1) of the 2004 Act must, on an application made in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee, give the applicant, for the purposes mentioned in subsection (1), a certificate of the formation of the civil partnership.

(3) “The prescribed manner” means—

(a) in accordance with any regulations made under section 159(1) of the 2004 Act, and

(b) in such form as is approved by the Department of Finance and Personnel.

(4) “The prescribed fee” means any fee prescribed under section 157 of the 2004 Act.”

(1)

1887 c. 40.