19 Detained persons
Civil Partnership Act 2004 (2004 c 33) | Legislation

19  Detained persons

(1)     This section applies if two people wish to register as civil partners of each other at the place where one of them is detained.

(2)     “Detained” means detained—

(a)     as a patient in a hospital (but otherwise than by virtue of section 2, 4, 5, 35, 36 or 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 (c 20) (short term detentions)), or

(b)     in a prison or other place to which the Prison Act 1952 (c 52) applies.

(3)     The procedure under which the two people concerned may register as civil partners of each other is the same as the standard procedure, except that—

(a)     each notice of proposed civil partnership must be accompanied by a supporting statement, which must have been made not more than 21 days before the

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