Sun 29 Aug 2010
Treatment of Overseas Relationships
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Will the UK recognise partnership schemes for same-sex couples that exist across Europe and beyond?
Same-sex couples who form certain “overseas relationships”, that is certain legal relationships registered under the law of another country or territory, will automatically be treated as having formed a civil partnership and will not need to register in the UK as well, so long as they and their overseas relationship meets the requirements set out in the Civil Partnership Act.
These include requirements that the overseas relationship is either (a) one of the specified relationships listed in Schedule 20 to the Act, or (b) a relationship that meets the “general conditions” contained in section 214.
The list of specified relationships in Schedule 20 currently contains:
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