s.15Civil partnership in extremis
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Section 15Part 4 — FORMALISATION OF CIVIL PARTNERSHIP

Civil partnership in extremis

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Notwithstanding anything in this Law, if the conditions specified in subsection (2) are fulfilled, it shall be lawful to formalise a civil partnership before a civil partnership officer without giving notice of the intended civil partnership, or, if notice has been given —
without the issue of the Registrar's or a Civil Registrar's certificate under section 9;
without the grant of a special licence under section 10; or
after the expiration of three months from the date of the issue of the Registrar's or a Civil Registrar's certificate or a special licence.
The conditions referred to in subsection (1) are as follows —
both parties to the intended civil partnership are required to be legally competent to enter into the civil partnership;
the civil partnership shall be formalised in the presence of two or more witnesses in addition to the civil partnership officer, and one of the witnesses must be a medical doctor;
each party shall give a clear statement that —
gives the full name of each party; and
acknowledges that the parties are freely entering into a civil partnership with each other and know of no lawful impediment to the civil partnership; and
at least one of the parties to the intended civil partnership must, in the opinion of a medical doctor, be in a dying state but is able to understand the effect of entering into the civil partnership.
A civil partnership formalised under this section shall not operate as a revocation of any will.

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