Part 2Civil partnership: England and Wales

Chapter 1Registration

Supplementary

29Civil partnership registrars

1

A civil partnership registrar is an individual who is designated by a registration authority as a civil partnership registrar for its area.

2

It is the duty of each registration authority to ensure that there is a sufficient number of civil partnership registrars for its area to carry out in that area the functions of civil partnership registrars.

3

Each registration authority must inform the Registrar General as soon as is practicable—

a

of any designation it has made of a person as a civil partnership registrar, and

b

of the ending of any such designation.

4

The Registrar General must make available to the public a list—

a

of civil partnership registrars, and

b

of the registration authorities for which they are designated to act.