'Standard conversion' process
The conversion will take less than 30 minutes. Both partners must attend a register office together - it does not need to be where they formed their civil partnership.
At the conversion appointment, the couple must present:
- evidence of their name, age and address
- evidence of their civil partnership
- details of where they will be having their conversion ceremony (if not at the same register office)
- evidence of any consents if a conversion ceremony is to take place in a religious building.
The Superintendent Registrar or a Deputy Superintendent Registrar will enter details about the couple and their civil partnership into a form. The information will be used to compile a Civil Partnership Conversion into a Marriage Declaration.
If no ceremony is taking place, the couple will be asked to read a declaration, which they may speak out loud if they wish. The couple will sign the declaration in front of the Superintendent Registrar or Deputy Superintendent Registrar.