The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Conversion of Civil Partnership and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

This Statutory Instrument has been made partly in consequence of defects in S.I. 2018/1268 and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2021 No. 440

Civil Partnership, England And Wales

Registration Of Births, Deaths & Marriages, Etc., England And Wales

The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Conversion of Civil Partnership and Fees) (Amendment) Regulations 2021

Made

30th March 2021

Laid before Parliament

1st April 2021

Coming into force

4th May 2021

The Secretary of State makes the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 71A(1)(g)(ii), (h), (ia), (j), (2)(a), (3), (4), (7)(b) and 74(3) of the Marriage Act 1949(1), section 34(1)(e) and (1A)(a) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004(2) and sections 9(1), (2), (2A), (3), (4)(b), (d) and (e) and (5)(a) and (ba) and 18(4)(a) and (b) of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013(3).

(1)

1949 c. 76 (12 & 13 Geo 6). Section 71A was inserted by paragraph 1 of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016 (c. 19) and amended by paragraph 42 of Schedule 1 to the Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411). See section 71A(9) for the definitions of “marriage services” and “prescribed”. Section 74(3) was inserted by paragraph 15 of Schedule 4 to the Immigration Act 2014 (c. 22).

(2)

2004 c. 33; section 34(1) was amended by paragraph 4(2) of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016 and paragraph 14(b) of Schedule 2 to the Transfer of Functions (Registration) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/678). Section 34(1A) was inserted by paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 15 to the Immigration Act 2016.

(3)

2013 c. 30; in section 9 subsection (2A) was inserted by regulation 37(1) of the Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458) and subsection (5)(ba) was inserted by section 99(3) of the Deregulation Act 2015 (c. 20). See section 9(7) for the definitions of “England and Wales civil partnership” and “relevant official”.