Clause 11 - Proposed civil partnership to be publicised
Civil Partnership Bill [Lords]
4:45 pm
Mr Christopher Chope (Shadow Minister, Environment and Transport; Christchurch, Conservative)
I should like to speak briefly to amendments Nos. 196 and 197, which would insert requirements that the address of the person giving notice and the proposed civil partner should be published. What possible reason could there be for not requiring the publication of the address, particularly if, as we now know from the decision on clause 9, civil partners may be registering long distances away from where they actually reside?
I note that, under clause 14, an objector to a proposed civil partnership must give his or her address; why should not the applicant for civil partnership have to do so, too?