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16/12/2014
Scotland's Same-Sex Marriage Law Comes Into Effect
A new same-sex marriage law has come into effect in Scotland.
Under the new law, same-sex couples can give notice of their intention to marry, and existing civil partnerships can be converted to a marriage – which one couple is understood to have done already, shortly after midnight when the law came into force.
While civil partnerships can be converted to a marriage, couples wishing to be married must give the standard 15-days notice period, meaning that the first gay marriage ceremony to take place in Scotland would be on Hogmanay.
(MH/JP)
Under the new law, same-sex couples can give notice of their intention to marry, and existing civil partnerships can be converted to a marriage – which one couple is understood to have done already, shortly after midnight when the law came into force.
While civil partnerships can be converted to a marriage, couples wishing to be married must give the standard 15-days notice period, meaning that the first gay marriage ceremony to take place in Scotland would be on Hogmanay.
(MH/JP)
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