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Introductory Text
Applications for gender recognition certificate
1.Applications
2.Determination of applications
3.Evidence
4.Successful applications
5.Subsequent issue of full certificates
6.Errors in certificates
7.Applications: supplementary
8.Appeals etc.
Consequences of issue of gender recognition certificate etc.
9.General
10.Registration
11.Marriage
12.Parenthood
13.Social security benefits and pensions
14.Discrimination
15.Succession etc.
16.Peerages etc.
17.Trustees and personal representatives
18.Orders where expectations defeated
19.Sport
20.Gender-specific offences
21.Foreign gender change and marriage
Supplementary
22.Prohibition on disclosure of information
23.Power to modify statutory provisions
24.Orders and regulations
25.Interpretation
26.Commencement
27.Applications within two years of commencement
28.Extent
29.Short title
SCHEDULES
SCHEDULE 1
Gender Recognition Panels
1.List of persons eligible to sit
2.President
3.Tenure of persons appointed to list
4.Membership of Panels
5.The arrangements must ensure that a Panel determining an application...
6.Procedure
7.Staff and facilities
8.Money
9.Council on Tribunals
10.Disqualification
11.In Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland...
SCHEDULE 2
Interim certificates: marriage
Part 1 England and Wales
1.The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18) is amended as...
2.In section 12 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
3.In section 13 (bars to relief), after subsection (2) insert—...
4.(1) Paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 (grounds on which a...
Part 2 Scotland
5.The Divorce (Scotland) Act 1976 (c. 39) is amended as...
6.(1) In subsection (1) of section 1 (grounds on which...
7.In section 2(1) (encouragement of reconciliation), for “in an action...
Part 3 Northern Ireland
8.The Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1045 (N.I....
9.In Article 14 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
10.In Article 16 (bars to relief), after paragraph (2) insert—...
11.(1) Paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 (grounds on which a...
SCHEDULE 3
Registration
Part 1 England and Wales
1.Introductory
2.Gender Recognition Register
3.Entries in Gender Recognition Register and marking of existing birth register entries
4.Indexing of entries in Gender Recognition Register
5.Certified copies of entries in Gender Recognition Register
6.Short certificates of birth compiled from Gender Recognition Register
7.Gender Recognition Register: re-registration
8.Correction etc. of Gender Recognition Register
9.Revocation of gender recognition certificate etc.
10.Evidence
11.Regulatory reform
Part 2 Scotland
12.Introductory
13.Gender Recognition Register
14.Entries in Gender Recognition Register
15.Indexing of entries in Gender Recognition Register
16.Extracts of entries in Gender Recognition Register
17.Abbreviated certificates of birth compiled from Gender Recognition Register
18.Gender Recognition Register: correction, re-registration etc.
19.Revocation of gender recognition certificate etc.
20.Authentication and admissibility
Part 3 Northern Ireland
21.Introductory
22.Gender Recognition Register
23.Entries in Gender Recognition Register and marking of existing birth register entries
24.Indexing of entries in Gender Recognition Register
25.Certified copies of entries in Gender Recognition Register
26.Short certificates of birth compiled from Gender Recognition Register
27.Gender Recognition Register: re-registration
28.Correction of errors in Gender Recognition Register
29.Revocation of gender recognition certificate etc.
30.Change of name
31.Evidence
32.Fees
SCHEDULE 4
Effect on marriage
Part 1 England and Wales
1.Marriage Act 1949 (c. 76)
2.In section 1 (restrictions on marriage), insert at the end—...
3.After section 5A insert— Marriages involving person of acquired gender...
4.Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18)
5.In section 12 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
6.In section 13(2), (3) and (4) (bars to relief), for...
Part 2 Scotland
7.Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (c. 15)
Part 3 Northern Ireland
8.Family Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern Ireland) Order 1984 (S.I. 1984/1984 (N.I. 14))
9.Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1045 (N.I. 15))
10.In Article 14 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
11.In Article 16(2), (3) and (4) (bars to relief), for...
SCHEDULE 5
Benefits and pensions
Part 1 Introductory
1.This Schedule applies where a full gender recognition certificate is...
Part 2 State benefits
2.Introductory
3.Widowed mother’s allowance
4.Widow’s pension
5.Widowed parent’s allowance
6.Long-term incapacity benefit etc.
7.Category A retirement pension
8.Category B retirement pension etc.
9.Shared additional pension
10.Deferment of pensions
11.Category C retirement pension for widows
12.Graduated retirement benefit: Great Britain
13.Graduated retirement benefit: Northern Ireland
Part 3 Occupational pension schemes
14.Guaranteed minimum pensions etc.: Great Britain
15.Guaranteed minimum pensions etc.: Northern Ireland
16.Equivalent pension benefits: Great Britain
17.Equivalent pension benefits: Northern Ireland
SCHEDULE 6
Sex discrimination
Part 1 Great Britain
1.The Sex Discrimination Act 1975 (c. 65) is amended as...
2.In section 7A (gender reassignment: exception for genuine occupational qualification),...
3.In section 7B (supplementary exceptions relating to gender reassignment), for...
4.In section 9 (discrimination against contract workers), after subsection (3C)...
5.In section 11 (partnerships), after subsection (3C) insert—
Part 2 Northern Ireland
6.The Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1042 (N.I....
7.In Article 10A (gender reassignment: exception for genuine occupational qualification),...
8.In Article 10B (supplementary exceptions relating to gender reassignment), for...
9.In Article 12 (discrimination against contract workers), after paragraph (3C)...
10.In Article 14 (partnerships), after paragraph (3C) insert—