The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021

Amendment of the Gender Recognition Register (Marriage and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2015

68.—(1) The Gender Recognition Register (Marriage and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2015(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 6(3) (particulars to be entered in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register), for “marriage register entry (or, in the case of a marriage resulting from the conversion of a civil partnership, their civil partnership register entry) as if they had signed the entry in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register” substitute—

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(a) marriage register entry, in the case of a marriage solemnized before 4th May 2021,

(b) marriage schedule, in the case of a marriage solemnized on or after 4th May 2021, or

(c) civil partnership document, in the case of a marriage resulting from the conversion of a civil partnership,

in the manner in which the names were recorded in the parties’ marriage register entry, marriage schedule or civil partnership document (as the case may be)”.

(3) In regulation 7(1) (qualifying marriages resulting from conversion of civil partnership), for “in the form prescribed on the applicable date under section 55(1) of” substitute “by entering the particulars required for registration of a marriage on the applicable date under”.

(4) Regulation 8 (qualifying marriages of same sex couples) is amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 8(3)(a), omit “section 55(1) of”;

(b) in regulation 8(4), for “in the form prescribed on the applicable date under section 55(1) of the Marriage Act 1949” substitute “by entering the particulars required for registration of a marriage on the applicable date under the Marriage Act 1949”.

(5) In regulation 9(2) (qualifying marriages solemnized according to religious rites), for “in the form prescribed on the applicable date under section 55(1) of” substitute “by entering the particulars required for registration of a marriage on the applicable date under”.

(6) In regulation 10(3) (qualifying marriages solemnized outside the United Kingdom), for “in the form prescribed on the applicable date under section 55(1) of” substitute “by entering the particulars required for registration of a marriage on the applicable date under”.

(1)

S.I. 2015/50, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.