Cap. 530 Art. 11Conversionofcivil union into marriage.

(1) Partners in a civil union contracted prior to the coming into force of the Marriage Act and other Laws (Amendment)

* Act, 2017 and in accordance with the provisions of this Act, may, within five years from the coming into force of the Marriage Act and

† other Laws (Amendment) Act, 2017 , convert their civil union into marriage:

Provided that persons who commenced the necessary procedures to contract a civil union prior to the coming into force of the Marriage Act and other Laws (Amendment) Act, 2017, and contract that civil union prior to the first day of December 2017, may also convert their civil union into marriage in accordance with this article.

(2) The procedure by which a civil union may be converted into marriage shall be established by the Minister by virtue of regulations to that effect.

(3) Where by virtue of the provisions of this article, a civil union is converted into marriage, the civil union shall end upon conversion, and the resulting marriage shall be deemed to have subsisted from the date when the civil union was formed.

*The provisions of Act XXIII of 2017 came into force on the 1st of September,