Couples will need to attend their local register office to register their intent
to apply for partnership registration.
Place of registration
- must be in England or Wales
- must not be in religious premises
- local register office or at any approved venue that is already licensed for
weddings
- must be specified in the notices or notice of proposed civil partnership
Civil partners can celebrate their civil partnership in any way they choose
after the statutory steps of registration.
Registering abroad
The Government is carefully considering whether to offer same-sex couples the
facility to register their partnership at a UK diplomatic post abroad in certain
circumstances, in a similar way as applies for marriage.
However, any such facility would depend on there being insufficient
facilities to register a civil partnership under the law of the foreign country
where they resided, and on the agreement of the country in question.