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The Hungarian Government has approved a new bill on registered partnerships.

It replaces a previous law on registered partnership that was struck down by the Constitutional Court in December, just weeks before its was due to come into force.

The new bill introduces the institution of registered partnership only for same sex couples and a scheme of domestic partnership registration for both same sex and different sex couples. Support for the bill in the Parliament is still an open question.

In December the Hungarian Constitutional Court ruled that the law on registered partnership adopted by the Hungarian Parliament a year earlier was unconstitutional.

The Constitutional Court is responsible for protecting the Constitution, reviewing the constitutionality of legislation and protecting fundamental constitutional rights.

The Registered Partnership Act gave both gay and straight couples the right to register their partnership and protections regarding next of kin status, taxation, health care, inheritance, social security, pensions and shared possession of a home.

The Court found that creating an institution similar to marriage for both same sex and different sex couples duplicates the institution of marriage for different sex couples, and thus contradicts the special protection of marriage enshrined in the Constitution.

The Court also ruled that same-sex couples have the right to an institution similar to marriage.

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