(1)Any person may at any time before the registration in Scotland of two people as civil partners of each other submit in writing an objection to such registration to the district registrar.
(2)But where the objection is that the intended civil partners are not eligible to be in civil partnership with each other because either is incapable of—
(a)understanding the nature of civil partnership, or
(b)validly consenting to its formation,
it shall be accompanied by a supporting certificate signed by a registered medical practitioner.
(3)A person claiming that he may have reason to submit such an objection may, free of charge and at any time when the registration office at which a notice of proposed civil partnership to which the objection would relate is open for public business, inspect any relevant entry in the civil partnership book.
(4)Where the district registrar receives an objection in accordance with subsection (1) he must—
(a)in any case where he is satisfied that the objection relates to no more than a misdescription or inaccuracy in a notice submitted under section 88(1)—
(i)notify the intended civil partners of the nature of the objection and make such enquiries into the matter mentioned in it as he thinks fit, and
(ii)subject to the approval of the Registrar General, make any necessary correction to any document relating to the proposed civil partnership, or
(b)in any other case—
(i)at once notify the Registrar General of the objection, and
(ii)pending consideration of the objection by the Registrar General, suspend the completion or issue of the civil partnership schedule in respect of the proposed civil partnership.
(5)If the Registrar General is satisfied, on consideration of an objection of which he has received notification under subsection (4)(b)(i) that—
(a)there is a legal impediment to registration, he must direct the district registrar not to register the intended civil partners and to notify them accordingly, or
(b)there is no such impediment, he must inform the district registrar to that effect.
(6)For the purposes of this section and section 94, there is a legal impediment to registration where the intended civil partners are not eligible to be in civil partnership with each other.