Commentary on provisions of Act Section 4 – Civil partnerships etc. registered outside England and Wales
This section amends the CPA 2004.
	Subsection 2 amends section 54 (validity of civil partnerships registered outside England and Wales). It inserts subsections that provide that where two people register as civil partners in Scotland or Northern Ireland, the partnership will be void if at time of registration, either of the two people were domiciled in England and Wales and either under 18.
	Subsection 2 (c) also amends section 54 so that if two people convert their marriage into a civil partnership under Northern Irish regulations, it will be void if either of them was domiciled in England and Wales and either under 18 when the marriage was solemnised.
	Subsection 3 amends section 217 (person domiciled in a part of the United Kingdom) which provides for an overseas relationship being registered by a person domiciled in England and Wales and increases the age under which two people are not to be treated as formed a civil partnership from 16 to 18. This is the only provision that extends to Scotland and Northern Ireland and therefore forms part of the law of Scotland and Northern Ireland.