PART 5U.K.Amendments: Gender Recognition

Foreign gender change and marriageU.K.

46.—(1) Section 21 (foreign gender change and marriage) is amended as follows.

(2) Omit subsection (1A)(1) (subsections (2) to (5) apply to Northern Ireland only).

(3) Omit subsections (2) to (5)(2) (non-recognition of foreign marriage following foreign gender change).

Commencement Information

I1Reg. 46 in force at 13.1.2020, see reg. 1(2)

(1)

Section 21(1A) was inserted by Part 1 of Schedule 5 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 and amended by S.I. 2014/3229.

(2)

Section 21(2) to (5) were amended by the Civil Partnership Act 2004 and Part 1 of Schedule 5 to the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, and repealed (so far as extending to Scotland) by the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5).