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Contact

Mail :
The Register Office
Chief Executive's Dept.
Lockyer Street
Plymouth PL1 2QD
Phone :
01752 268331
Email :
regoff@plymouth.gov.uk
Fax :
01752 256046

Office hours

  • Monday 9am to 5pm
  • Tuesday 9am to 6pm
  • Wednesday 9am to 5pm
  • Thursday 9am to 5pm
  • Friday 9am to 4.30pm
  • An appointment system operates

Basic civil partnership ceremony

This may take place in a ceremony room at the Register Office or a licensed room at an Approved Premises.

The Registrar will require to see both parties to the civil partnership registration together prior to the ceremony. This is to ensure that all details for the ceremony are correct and that all legal formalities have been completed.

Ceremony

The Registrar will say the preliminary announcements.

You will be asked to repeat a form of declaration and statement of intention.

You may wish to exchange one or two rings and make a promise to one another.

You will be asked to check and sign the civil partnership schedule in the presence of two witnesses and the Registrar. You may choose to say the declarations printed on the schedule as you do so.

The Registrar will say a few closing words and announce your partnership.

Cost

  • Register Office ceremony room or office, 15 minute booking - £40
  • Drake Ceremony Room and garden facilities, 30 minute booking, plus addition time - £90
  • Drake Ceremony Room and garden facilities, 45 minute booking, plus addition time - £125
  • Approved Premises - £275