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The Civil Partnership (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014

Type Scottish-Statutory-Instrument
Publication 2014-11-11
State In force
Jurisdiction Scotland
Department King's Printer for Scotland
Source legislation.gov.uk
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Made: 11th November 2014

Laid before the Scottish Parliament: 13th November 2014

Coming into force: 16th December 2014

In accordance with section 94A(2)(a)[^f00002] of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 the bodies prescribed in regulation 2 have requested the Scottish Ministers to prescribe them.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Civil Partnership (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 and come into force on 16th December 2014.

Prescribed bodies

2

The body prescribed for the purposes of section 94A(1)(a)(i) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 is listed in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Humanist Society Scotland

Signed

ALEX NEIL — A member of the Scottish Government — 11th November 2014

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

Section 94A(1)(a)(i) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 enables the Scottish Ministers to prescribe the religious or belief bodies whose ministers, clergymen, pastors, priests or other celebrants are entitled to register civil partnerships without the need to be registered as approved celebrants or temporarily authorised under the Civil Partnership Act 2004.

Regulation 2 of these Regulations prescribes the Scottish Unitarian Association.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 2004 c.33; section 94A was inserted by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5) (“the 2014 Act”), section 24(13).

[^f00002]: Section 94A(2)(a) was inserted by section 24(13) of the 2014 Act.

Editorial notes

[^key-4d25859186467587919223fd7a38c7bc]: Reg. 1 in force at 16.12.2014, see reg. 1

[^key-fc27a7f96bdec4622966872b7b73194d]: Reg. 2 in force at 16.12.2014, see reg. 1

[^key-773e62169d18a3470823c367133195f1]: Words in sch. inserted (14.2.2017) by The Civil Partnership, Marriage Between Persons of Different Sexes and Same Sex Marriage (Prescribed Bodies) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/427), regs. 1, 2

The Scottish Unitarian Association

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