Part 2Civil partnership: England and Wales

Chapter 1Registration

The standard procedure

9BF1Change of usual address or UK contact address

1

The Secretary of State may, by regulations, make provision about the giving to the Secretary of State of—

a

notice of a person's usual address, if the person's notified usual address changes;

b

notice of a UK contact address, if the person's notified usual address is not in the United Kingdom;

c

notice of a person's UK contact address, if the person's notified UK contact address changes;

d

evidence of any address notified in accordance with regulations under paragraph (a), (b) or (c).

2

The provision that may be made in regulations under this section includes—

a

provision imposing a requirement on a person;

b

provision about the rejection of information or evidence which there are reasonable grounds to suspect to be false.

3

Regulations under subsection (1)(d) may, in particular, make any provision of the kind that may be made under section 9E(3).

4

In this section—

  • “notified UK contact address” means an address in the United Kingdom, at which a person can be contacted by post, that has been notified in accordance with—

    1. a

      section 8A(7) or 9A(6), or

    2. b

      regulations under this section;

  • “notified usual address” means the usual address of a person that has been notified in accordance with—

    1. a

      section 8A(7) or 9A(6), or

    2. b

      regulations under this section.