From this week, couples of the opposite sex will be able to register their intent for a civil partnership.
After a hard-fought campaign and legal challenge spanning half a decade from the Equal Civil Partnership Campaign Group, with campaigners Dr Rebecca Steinfeld and Charles Keidan, the remit of the Civil Partnerships law has been extended, by virtue of the Civil Partnership, Marriages and Deaths (Registration) Act 2019, which now provides in Section 2 (1):
- “To persons who are not of the same sex to form a civil partnership in England and Wales”
These regulations will be in full effect no later than 31 December 2019.