PART 5Amendments: Gender Recognition
Alternative grounds for granting certificates in Northern IrelandI142
1
Sections 2(3A), 3(9), 3A and 3B, and paragraph 4(3) of Schedule 160, (alternative grounds for granting gender recognition certificates) extend also to Northern Ireland.
2
Section 3A (as it has effect in accordance with paragraph (1)) is amended as follows.
3
In subsection (4)(a) (applicant must have been living in the acquired gender as at 10th December 2008), after “2013” insert “(but see subsection (8))”.
4
In subsection (6) (ordinary residence in Great Britain), for “or Scotland” substitute “, Scotland or Northern Ireland”.
5
After subsection (7) insert—
8
Where the applicant—
a
is a party to a protected marriage that is a marriage under the law of Northern Ireland, or
b
is a party to a protected civil partnership that is a civil partnership under the law of Northern Ireland, or
c
is ordinarily resident in Northern Ireland,
subsection (4)(a) has effect as if for the words after “was living in the acquired gender” there were substituted “on 13 January 2014”.