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Where to Register for Civil Partnership

Where to register for Civil Partnership - FJG Solicitors Colchester Essex UKCouples 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.