s.18Grounds on which a civil partnership is void
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Section 18Part 6 — VOID AND VOIDABLE CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS

Grounds on which a civil partnership is void

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A civil partnership shall be void on the following grounds—
if it is not formalised by the Registrar, a Civil Registrar or a civil partnership officer;
if at the time it was entered into either party was under the age of sixteen;
if at the time it was entered into either party was already married, in a civil partnership or overseas relationship;
if at the time it was entered into the parties were within the prohibited degrees of civil partnership, and no order under paragraph 4 of Schedule 1 had been obtained;
if both parties knowingly and wilfully acquiesced in the formalisation of the civil partnership under a false name or names;
if both parties to the civil partnership (not being a civil partnership in extremis) knowingly and wilfully acquiesced in its formalisation without any notice given of the civil partnership (where such notice is required by this Law) or without the authority of the Registrar's or a Civil Registrar's certificate under section 9, a special licence under section 10 or a licence under section 33 or 34;
if it is formalised as a civil partnership in extremis, and both parties knowingly and wilfully acquiesced in its being so formalised without fulfilment of the conditions specified by section 15; or
that either party to the civil partnership did not validly consent to it, whether by consequence of fraud, duress, mistake, unsoundness of mind or otherwise.

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