The Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Overseas Relationships and Consequential, etc. Amendments) Order 2005

Social Security Administration Act 1992

4.—(1) In the Social Security Administration Act 1992(1), after section 124 insert—

“Provisions relating to civil partnership: England and Wales

124A— (1) Regulations made by the Registrar General under section 36 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 may provide for the furnishing by registration authorities, subject to the payment of the prescribed fee, of such information for the purposes mentioned in section 124(1) above as may be so prescribed.

(2) Where the civil partnership of a person is required to be ascertained or proved for those purposes, any person—

(a) on presenting to the registration authority for the area in which the civil partnership was formed a request in the prescribed manner in that behalf, and

(b) on payment of the prescribed fee,

shall be entitled to obtain a certified copy of such entries in the register as are prescribed by regulations made under section 36 of the 2004 Act.

(3) “The prescribed fee” means any fee prescribed under section 34(1) of the 2004 Act.

(4) “The prescribed manner” means—

(a) in accordance with any regulations made under section 36 of the 2004 Act, and

(b) in such form as is approved by the Registrar General for England and Wales,

and forms for making a request under subsection (2) shall, on request, be supplied without charge by registration authorities.

Provisions relating to civil partnership: Scotland

124B— (1) Where the civil partnership of a person is required to be ascertained or proved for the purposes mentioned in section 124(1) above, any person, on presenting to a district registrar a request in the approved manner in that behalf, shall be entitled to obtain a copy, certified by the registrar, of the entry in the civil partnership register of the particulars of the civil partnership.

(2) “The approved manner” means in such form and containing such particulars as may be approved by the Registrar General for Scotland.

(3) Forms for making a request under subsection (1) shall, on request, be supplied without charge by district registrars.

(4) “Civil partnership register” has the same meaning as in Part 3 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004.”

(2) In Schedule 10 to that Act (supplementary benefit etc.), in paragraph 3(1), for “section 124” substitute “sections 124 to 124B”.

(1)

1992 c. 5.