Part 3

Civil partnership: Scotland
Chapter 2

Registration

Civil partnership notice book
89
1
On receipt of a notice of proposed civil partnership, the district registrar is to enter in a book (to be known as “the civil partnership book”) supplied to him for that purpose by the Registrar General such particulars, extracted from the notice, as may be prescribed and the date of receipt by him of that notice.
2
The form and content of any page of that book is to be prescribed.
3
In this section and sections 90, 91, 92 and 94, “
the district registrar
” means—
a
where the civil partnership is to be registered in a registration district, the district registrar for that district,
b
where the civil partnership is to be registered in Scottish waters—
i
in the case where the civil partnership is to be registered by an approved celebrant, the district registrar to whom the civil partnership notices were submitted,
ii
in the case where the civil partnership is to be registered by an authorised registrar, the district registrar for the registration district of the proposed authorised registrar.
4
Subsection (1) is subject to section 88E.
S. 89 wholly in force at 5.12.2005; s. 89 not in force at Royal Assent see s. 263; s. 89(1) in force at 14.9.2005 for certain purposes by S.S.I. 2005/428, art. 2, Sch. and otherwise 5.12.2005 insofar as not already in force by S.S.I. 2005/604, art. 2(b); s. 89(2) in force at 14.9.2005 by S.S.I. 2005/428, art. 2, Sch.
S. 89(3) inserted (16.12.2014) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), ss. 24(6), 36; S.S.I. 2014/287, art. 3, sch.
S. 89(4) inserted for specified purposes (1.3.2015) by The Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Scotland) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/396), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 4 (with art. 1(3))