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		Civil Partnerships - selected data tables (provisional) Product   Presents provisional data on civil partnership formations and dissolutions in the UK. The Civil Partnership Act 2004 came into force on 5 December 2005 in the UK, the first day couples could give notice of their intention to form a civil partnership. The Act enables same-sex couples aged 16 and over to obtain legal recognition of their relationship. The first day that couples could normally form a partnership was 19 December in Northern Ireland, 20 December in Scotland and 21 December in England and Wales. To obtain a civil partnership dissolution in the UK, a couple must have been in either a registered civil partnership or a recognised foreign relationship for 12 months. The tables contain data by year, sex, area of formation, age at formation, previous legal partnership status,... View more information about this product.   Office for National Statistics (ONS), Annual, Online edition, First/News/Press Release, Contact: +44 (0)1329 444110 04/08/2009 News Release - Civil partnerships down 18 per cent in 2008 (Pdf) Civil Partnerships 2008 Statistical Bulletin (Pdf) Civil Partnership Formations: Numbers and rates (91Kb - Xls) Civil Partnership Formations: Data by area of formation (303Kb - Xls) Civil Partnership Formations: Data by age at formation (121Kb - Xls) Civil Partnership Formations: Data by previous legal partnership status (173Kb - Xls) Civil Partnership Dissolutions: Numbers and data by age at dissolution (124Kb - Xls) Civil Partnerships News Release - June 2008 (Pdf) Civil Partnerships News Release - June 2007 (Pdf) Latest on: Civil Partnerships (Web link)   Accessibility|FAQs and Contact Us|Terms & Conditions|Privacy Statement Link to us|Crown Copyright applies unless otherwise stated