SCHEDULES
F1SCHEDULE 13AModifications if proposed civil partnership referred under section 139E
Annotations:
Amendments (Textual)
3Civil partnership to be investigated: completion of civil partnership schedule
1
The modifications in this paragraph have effect if the Secretary of State gives the registrar notice under section 48(8B) of the 2014 Act of a decision to investigate whether the referred civil partnership is a sham.
2
Section 143, which becomes subsection (1), has effect as if—
a
after “proposed civil partners,” there were inserted “but not before the expiry of the relevant 70 day period,”; and
b
after subsection (1) there were inserted—
2
In this section “relevant 70 day period” means the period—
a
beginning the day on which the record relating to the proposed civil partnership is made in the civil partnership notice book, and
b
ending at the end of the period of 70 days beginning with that day.
3
This paragraph is subject to paragraphs 4 and 5.
Sch. 13A inserted (1.3.2015) by The Referral and Investigation of Proposed Marriages and Civil Partnerships (Northern Ireland and Miscellaneous Provisions) Order 2015 (S.I. 2015/395), art. 1(2), Sch. 3 para. 3 (with art. 1(3))