The parties to a qualifying civil partnership may apply to the Registrar General, on a form supplied by the Registrar General for that purpose, for the registration of their civil partnership in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register.

An application under paragraph (1) must be made jointly by both parties.

If, on receipt of a completed application under paragraph (1), the Registrar General requires further information to enable the registration of the qualifying civil partnership in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register, the Registrar General may request it from the parties.

No certified copy or certified extract of the parties’ civil partnership register entry is to include anything marked by virtue of paragraph (1)(b).

Information kept by the Registrar General for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) is not to be open to public inspection or search.

Except as provided in paragraph (2), the particulars to be registered in an entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register are the same particulars as were required by law to be registered in the parties’ civil partnership register entry.

Any entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register must reflect the parties’ names and gender referred to on the gender recognition certificates granted to both parties.

There is no requirement for an entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register to be signed by any person, but the Registrar General must register the name of any person who signed the parties’ civil partnership register entry as if they had signed the entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register.

Where the parties’ civil partnership was formed in Wales, the particulars to be contained in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register must be recorded in English, and must also be recorded in Welsh if the parties so elect, and provide the required particulars in both languages.

The Registrar General must make arrangements for each entry made in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register to be included in the relevant index kept in the General Register Office.

Any right to search the relevant index includes the right to search entries included in it by virtue of paragraph (1).

Where by virtue of paragraph (1) an index includes entries in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register, the index must not disclose that fact.

“The relevant index” in relation to a person’s entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register, means the index of entries in registers, or of certified copies of entries in registers, or of civil partnership documents, which includes the person’s civil partnership register entry.

Anyone who may have a certified copy of the civil partnership register entry, or certified copy of the civil partnership document11, of a person issued with a full gender recognition certificate may have a certified copy of the entry made in relation to the person in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register.

Anyone who may have a certified extract of the civil partnership register entry of a person issued with a full gender recognition certificate may have a certified extract of the entry made in relation to the person in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register.