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5U.K.After section 5A insert—
“Other provision about applications and certificatesU.K.
5BApplications by both civil partners
(1)This section applies where the Panel decides to issue a full gender recognition certificate to a party to a protected civil partnership.
(2)The Panel must not issue the full gender recognition certificate to that person unless the Panel issues a full gender recognition certificate to the other party to the protected civil partnership.
(3)In such a case, the Panel must issue both certificates on the same day.
(4)Those certificates take effect at the beginning of the day on which they are issued.”.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 5 para. 5 in force at 10.12.2014 by S.I. 2014/3169, art. 2