Part 2

Civil partnership: England and Wales
Chapter 1

Registration

Supplementary

Regulations and orders
36
1
Regulations may make provision supplementing the provisions of this Chapter.
2
Regulations may in particular make provision—
a
relating to the use of Welsh in documents and records relating to civil partnerships;
b
with respect to the retention of documents relating to civil partnerships;
c
prescribing the duties of civil partnership registrars;
d
prescribing the duties of persons in whose presence any declaration is made for the purposes of this Chapter;
e
for the issue by the Registrar General of guidance supplementing any provision made by the regulations.
f
for the issue by registration authorities or the Registrar General of certified copies of entries in the register and for such copies to be received in evidence.
3
In this Chapter “regulations” means regulations made by the Registrar General with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
4
Any power to make regulations or an order under this Chapter is exercisable by statutory instrument.
5
A statutory instrument containing an order under section 34 is subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution of either House of Parliament.
6
No order may be made under section 35 unless a draft of the statutory instrument containing the order has been laid before, and approved by a resolution of, each House of Parliament.