Amendment summary
Baroness Deech moved amendment 94, in clause 14, page 13, line 13, at end to insert: “(1A) The review under subsection (1) must deal with the case for amending the criteria in the Civil Partnership Act 2004 which define the eligibility of people to register as civil partners. (1B) The review must in particular consider: (a) the case for extending such eligibility to: (i) unpaid carers and those they care for, and (ii) family members who share a house, provided that they have cohabitated for 5 years or more and are over the age of eighteen, and (b) the case for creating a new legal status that would confer all the benefits of civil partnerships upon those mentioned in paragraph (a) without amending the criteria for eligibility for civil partnership.”