Marriage
(asked on 4th June 2014) - View Source
Question to the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport:
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether they plan to introduce a measure enabling civil partners to marry.
This question was answered on 17th June 2014
Section 9 of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 provides that civil partners may convert their civil partnership into marriage under regulations to be made by my Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport. Her Majesty's Government is working hard to ensure that couples wanting to convert their civil partnerships into marriages are able to do so as soon as possible. The aim is to do this before the end of 2014.