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The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019
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Regulation 5(6)
SCHEDULE 1Specified overseas relationships: opposite-sex relationships
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The provision to be inserted as Part 2 of Schedule 20 to the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is as follows—
“PART 2Opposite-sex relationships
A relationship is specified for the purposes of section 213(1)(b) (specified relationships between two people who are not of the same sex) if it is registered in a country or territory given in the first column of the table and fits the description given in relation to that country or territory in the second column—
| Country or territory | Description |
|---|---|
| Andorra | uniό estable de parella |
| Argentina | unión convivencial |
| Aruba | geregistreerd partnerschap |
| Australia: Australian Capital Territory | civil partnership |
| Australia: New South Wales | a relationship registered under the Relationships Register Act 2010 |
| Australia: Queensland | civil partnership |
| Australia: South Australia | registered relationship |
| Australia: Tasmania | significant relationship |
| Australia: Victoria | registered domestic relationship |
| Austria | eingetragene Partnerschaft |
| Belgium | the relationship referred to as cohabitation légale, wettelijke samenwoning or gesetzliches Zusammenwohnen |
| Bermuda | domestic partnership |
| Brazil | união estável |
| Canada: Alberta | adult interdependent partner |
| Canada: Manitoba | the relationship referred to as common-law relationship or as union de fait |
| Canada: Nova Scotia | domestic partnership |
| Canada: Quebec | union civile |
| Chile | unión civil |
| Colombia | unión marital de hecho |
| Cyprus | politiki symviosi |
| Ecuador | unión de hecho |
| Estonia | Kooselulepingu |
| Falkland Islands | civil partnership |
| France | pacte civil de solidarité |
| Gibraltar | civil partnership |
| Greece | simfono simviosis |
| Isle of Man | civil partnership |
| Israel | civil union |
| Luxembourg | the relationship referred to as partenariat enregistré or eingetragene Partnerschaft |
| Malta | civil union |
| Mexico: Campeche | sociedad civil de Convivencia |
| Mexico: Coahuila | pacto civil de solidaridad |
| Mexico: Mexico City Federal District | sociedad de convivencia |
| Mexico: Michoacán | sociedad de Convivencia |
| Mexico: Tlaxcala | sociedad de convivencia solidaria |
| Netherlands | geregistreerd partnerschap |
| New Zealand | civil union |
| San Marino | unione civile |
| South Africa | civil partnership |
| Spain: Balearic Islands | pareja estable |
| Spain: Basque Country | pareja de hecho |
| Spain: Galicia | pareja de hecho |
| United States of America: California | domestic partnership |
| United States of America: Colorado | civil union |
| United States of America: District of Columbia | domestic partnership |
| United States of America: Hawaii | civil union |
| United States of America: Illinois | civil union |
| United States of America: Maine | domestic partnership |
| United States of America: Nevada | domestic partnership |
| United States of America: New Jersey | domestic partnership |
| United States of America: Washington | state registered domestic partnership” |
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