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Guidance: Handling prisoner applications to marry or form a civil partnership: PSI 14/2016

Ministry Of Justice

February 15
10:12 2024

This prison service instruction (PSI) explains how prisons should handle requests from prisoners to get married or enter into a civil partnership. The guidance covers:

  • legal requirements and responsibilities
  • evaluating requests
  • security considerations, including deciding whether to allow the ceremony to take place outside of prison
  • the ceremony and registration, including religious and faith-based ceremonies

This is a current PSI. It came into effect on 14 October 2016 and was last updated on 20 August 2020.

Published 20 August 2020
Last updated 15 February 2024 +show all updates
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