PART 6Miscellaneous amendments

Limitation of right to convert civil partnership into marriage to same-sex couples37

1

In section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 201359, after subsection (2) insert—

2A

Subsections (1) and (2) apply only where both parties to the civil partnership are of the same sex.

2

In regulation 2 of the Marriage of Same Sex Couples (Conversion of Civil Partnership) Regulations 201460, in the definition of “civil partnership”, for the words from “is either” to the end substitute—

—

a

is between two people who are of the same sex, and

b

is either an England and Wales civil partnership, or a civil partnership within section 9(3) of the 2013 Act;