SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 4U.K.Effect on marriage

Part 3 N.I.Northern Ireland

Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1045 (N.I. 15))N.I.

9N.I.The Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 is amended as follows.

10N.I.In Article 14 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after the commencement of that Article is voidable), insert at the end—

“(h)that the respondent is a person whose gender at the time of the marriage had become the acquired gender under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.”

11N.I.In Article 16(2), (3) and (4) (bars to relief), for “or (f)” substitute “ , (f) or (h) ”.