Part 4

Civil partnership: Northern Ireland
Chapter 1

Registration

Young persons

Parental etc. consent where proposed civil partner under 18
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1
The consent of the appropriate persons is required before a young person and another person may register as civil partners of each other.
2
Schedule 13 contains provisions—
a
for determining who are the appropriate persons for the purposes of this section (see Part 1 of the Schedule);
b
for orders dispensing with consent and for recording consents and orders (see Parts 2 and 3 of the Schedule).
3
Each consent required by subsection (1) must be—
a
in the prescribed form; and
b
produced to the registrar before the issue of the civil partnership schedule.
4
Nothing in this section affects any need to obtain the consent of the High Court before a ward of court and another person may register as civil partners of each other.
5
In this section and Schedule 13 “young person” means a person who is under 18.