Commentary on Sections Part 2 – Civil Partnership: England and Wales.Introduction Chapter 1 – Registration Section 35: Power to assimilate provisions relating to civil registration
65.Subsection (1) gives the Chancellor of the Exchequer the power to make an order to assimilate, if appropriate, the provisions of the Act connected with the formation or recording of a civil partnership to any provision made in relation to civil marriage in England and Wales. Such order may also make appropriate consequential amendments of other legislation.