s.8Preliminaries to civil partnership on Registrar's or Civil Registrar's certificate
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Section 8Part 3 — NOTICE AND ISSUE OF CERTIFICATE AND SPECIAL LICENCE

Preliminaries to civil partnership on Registrar's or Civil Registrar's certificate

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If two persons intend to enter into a civil partnership, one of them shall apply to —
the Registrar; or
a Civil Registrar,
and shall give notice in the prescribed form of the intended civil partnership.
The person giving notice under subsection (1) shall also make a statutory declaration in the prescribed form before the Registrar or Civil Registrar declaring that the person believes that —
where applicable, either of the parties or both are at least sixteen years of age but under eighteen years of age and has or have received consent to enter into a civil partnership in accordance with this Law;
where applicable, the parties are both eighteen years of age or older;
neither party is currently married, in a civil partnership or overseas relationship;
the parties are not within the prohibited degrees of civil partnership or, if they are, a court order has been made under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 dispensing with the prohibition;
there is no other lawful impediment to the intended civil partnership; and
the particulars in the notice are true.
If both of the parties to an intended civil partnership are ordinarily resident outside of the Islands, the requirements of this section are satisfied if one of the parties sends to the Registrar by electronic means to the e-mail address provided by the Registrar or posts to the Registrar —
the notice under subsection (1) in the prescribed form; and
the statutory declaration as to the matters in subsection (2) at any time before the civil partnership is formalised.
Upon receipt of a notice of an intended civil partnership, the Registrar or Civil Registrar, on being satisfied that the notice conforms to the requirements of this section, shall —
enter the particulars set out in the notice in the Civil Partnerships Notice Book; and
display in a conspicuous and accessible place on a notice board in a public area in the Registrar or Civil Registrar's office, a public notice of the intended civil partnership in the form as provided by the Registrar, and shall keep the notice so displayed for seven consecutive days after it has been put up.
The Civil Partnerships Notice Book shall be open at all reasonable times to any person desiring to inspect it.
For the purposes of this section, "electronic" has the meaning assigned by section 2 of the Electronic Transactions Law (2003 Revision).

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