SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1Prohibited degrees of relationship: England and Wales

Part 2Special provisions relating to qualified prohibitions

Provisions relating to paragraph 3

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(1)

This paragraph applies where two people are subject to paragraph 3 but intend to register as civil partners of each other by signing a civil partnership schedule.

(2)

The fact that a notice of proposed civil partnership has been given must not be recorded in the register unless the registration authority is satisfied by the production of evidence—

(a)

that both the proposed civil partners have reached 21, and

(b)

that the persons referred to in paragraph 3(b) are dead.