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Following assent from Queen Elizabeth II, same-sex marriage will be legal in England and Wales on March 29, 2014. Until then, same-sex couples may obtain the same rights and responsibilities as legal marriage by entering into a civil partnership.
A same-sex marriage law has been enacted in Scotland and such marriages will begin there in October 2014.
Both performance and recognition of a marriage between parties of the same gender is explicitly prohibited in Northern Ireland by the 2003 Marriage Order (Northern Ireland).
Previously, the 2004 Civil Partnership Act (which came into effect in December 2005) provided exactly the same rights and benefits of marriage to same-sex couples, except for use of the word "marriage." Same-sex marriages performed in countries outside the UK are recognized inside the UK as "Civil Partnerships."
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