Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020
Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (2020 asp 15)
- Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2020 (2020 asp 15)
- Extension of civil partnership to different sex couples
- 1 Different sex civil partnerships
- 2 Recognition of overseas different sex relationships
- 3 Interim recognition of different sex relationships formed outwith Scotland
- Power to enable marriages to become civil partnerships
- 4 Power to enable marriages to become civil partnerships
- Recognition of marriages converted to civil partnerships outwith Scotland
- 5 Recognition of marriages converted to civil partnerships outwith Scotland
- Eligibility and registration in Scotland
- 6 Eligibility of persons of different sexes to enter into a civil partnership
- 7 Persons who may register civil partnerships between persons of different sexes
- 8 Registration and removal of celebrants
- 9 Temporary authorisation of celebrants
- 10 Second registration of civil partnership
- Dissolution
- 11 Postponement of decree of dissolution where religious impediment to marry exists
- Marriage between civil partners in a qualifying civil partnership: celebrants
- 12 Marriage between civil partners in a qualifying civil partnership: celebrants
- Forced civil partnerships
- 13 Forced civil partnerships
- Consequential modifications
- 14 Consequential modifications
- Final provisions
- 15 Ancillary provision
- 16 Commencement
- 17 Short title
- SCHEDULE 1 Recognition of overseas different sex relationships
- SCHEDULE 2 Consequential modifications
- Modification of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965
- Modification of the Family Law (Scotland) Act 1985
- Modification of the Law Reform (Parent and Child) (Scotland) Act 1986
- Modification of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995
- Modification of the Gender Recognition Act 2004
- Modification of the Civil Partnership Act 2004
- Modification of the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014