🔆 📖 ➕ 👤

Statutory Instruments

2012 No. 3100

Regulatory Reform

The Legislative Reform (Civil Partnership) Order 2012

Made

4th December 2012

Coming into force

5th December 2012

The Secretary of State, Foreign and Commonwealth Office (“the Secretary of State”) makes this Order in exercise of the powers conferred by section 1 of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006( 1 ) (“the 2006 Act”).

For the purposes of section 3(1) of the 2006 Act, the Secretary of State considers that, where relevant, the conditions under section 3(2) are satisfied.

The Secretary of State has consulted in accordance with section 13(1) of the 2006 Act.

The Secretary of State has laid a draft of this Order and an explanatory document before Parliament in accordance with section 14(1) of the 2006 Act.

Pursuant to section 15 of the 2006 Act, the affirmative resolution procedure (within the meaning of Part 1 of that Act) applies in relation to the making of this Order.

After the expiry of the 40-day period referred to in section 17(2) of the 2006 Act, each House has approved a draft of this Order.

Citation and Commencement

1. This Order may be cited as the Legislative Reform (Civil Partnership) Order 2012 and shall come into force on the day after it is made.

Amendments to the Civil Partnership Act 2004

2. —(1)Section 210 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004( 2 ) (registration at British consulates etc ) is amended as follows.

(2) In subsection (1)(b), for the words “a prescribed officer of Her Majesty’s Diplomatic Service” substitute “a registration officer”.

(3) In subsection (3), for “An officer” substitute “A registration officer”.

(4) After subsection (5) insert—

“ (6) “Registration officer” means—

(a) a consular officer in the service of Her Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom, or

(b) in the case of registration in a country in which Her Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom has for the time being no consular representative, a person authorised by the Secretary of State in respect of registration of civil partnerships in that country. ”

Mark Simmonds

Parliamentary Under Secretary of State

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

4th December 2012

( 1 )

2006 c.51 ; see section 32 for the definitions of “Minister of the Crown” and “regulatory function”.

( 2 )

2004 c.33 .

Status: This is the original version (as it was originally made). This item of legislation is currently only available in its original format.
The Legislative Reform (Civil Partnership) Order 2012 (2012/3100)

Displaying information

Status of this instrument

footnotecommentarytransitional and savingsin force statusrelated provisionsgeo extentinsert/omitsource countin force adj
Defined TermSection/ArticleIDScope of Application
the 2006 ActUnknown(“_prnuqNFb
the Secretary of StateUnknown(“_prn5ozfl
This instrument is derived from the version at www.legislation.gov.uk. To see a list of all amendments (including any to be made) check the resources page for this instrument on their website. Note, the status of this instrument is given above.
This instrument is derived from the version at www.legislation.gov.uk. To see original commencement information, check the resources page associated with this instrument. n.b. commencement information for marked amendments is embedded in the relevant footnote.

Status of changes to instrument text

The list includes made instruments, both those in force and those yet to come into force. Typically, instruments that are not yet in force (hence their changes are not incorporated into the text above) are indicated by description 'not yet' in the changes made column.