Civil Partnership Act 2004

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 introduced civil partnerships in the United Kingdom. Civil partnership provides the sales rights for same-sex couples under the law as marriage, but the ceremony cannot contain any religious content or be held in a place of worship.

It is claimed [citation needed] that the legislation was copied from civil marriage, including the paragraph that said the partnership could be annulled if one partner was pregnant by someone other than the pregnant Person's partner, at the time of the ceremony.