Part 2

Civil partnership: England and Wales
Chapter 1

Registration

The special procedure

Notice of proposed civil partnership
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1
For two people to register as civil partners of each other under the special procedure, one of them must—
a
give a notice of proposed civil partnership to the registration authority for the area in which it is proposed that the registration take place, and
b
comply with any requirement made under section 22.
2
The notice must contain such information as may be prescribed by regulations.
3
Subsections (3) to (6) of section 8 (necessary declaration etc.), apart from paragraph (b) of subsection (4), apply for the purposes of this section as they apply for the purposes of that section.