Part 4

Civil partnership: Northern Ireland
Chapter 1

Registration

Supplementary

Detained persons
149
1
If—
a
one of the parties to a proposed civil partnership is detained in a prison or as a patient in a hospital, and
b
the civil partnership is to be registered in that prison or hospital,
the civil partnership notice given by that party must be accompanied by a statement to which subsection (2) applies.
2
This subsection applies to a statement which—
a
is made in the prescribed form by the responsible authority not more than 21 days before the date on which the civil partnership notice is given,
b
identifies the establishment where the person is detained, and
c
states that the responsible authority has no objection to that establishment being the place of registration for that civil partnership.
3
In subsection (2) “responsible authority” means—
a
if the person named in the statement is detained in a prison, the governor or other officer in charge of that prison;
b
if the person named in the statement is detained in a hospital or special accommodation, the Health and Social Services Board administering that hospital or the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, respectively;
c
if the person named in the statement is detained in a private hospital, the person in charge of that hospital.
4
After the registrar receives a civil partnership notice accompanied by a statement to which subsection (2) applies, he must notify the Registrar General and not complete a civil partnership schedule unless the Registrar General directs him to proceed under section 143.
5
In this section—
a
“prison” includes a remand centre and a young offenders centre, and
b
“hospital”, “patient”, “private hospital” and “special accommodation” have the same meaning as in the Mental Health (Northern Ireland) Order 1986 (S.I. 1986/595 (N.I. 4)).