The Gender Recognition Register (Marriage and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2015

PART 4 General

Certified copies of entries

19.—(1) A certified copy or certified extract of an entry in the GR registers must not disclose the fact that the entry is contained in the GR registers.

(2) A certified copy or certified extract of any entry in the GR registers must be stamped or sealed with the seal of the General Register Office.

(3) A certified copy or certified extract of an entry in the GR registers, stamped or sealed in accordance with paragraph (2), is to be received as evidence of the marriage or civil partnership to which it relates without any further or other proof of the entry.

Correction etc. of GR registers

20.—(1) Any power or duty of the Registrar General or any other person to correct, alter, amend, mark or cancel the marking of a person’s marriage register entry or civil partnership register entry, as the case may be, is exercisable, or falls to be performed, by the Registrar General in relation to an entry in the GR registers which relates to that person.

(2) The Registrar General may correct the GR registers by entry in the margin (without any alteration of the original entry) in consequence of the issue of a corrected full gender recognition certificate after an application under section 6(1)(c) of the 2004 Act(1).

(3) If, after an entry has been made in one of the GR registers in relation to a person, the Registrar General is notified of the grant of an application for an interim gender recognition certificate under section 6(1)(a) of the 2004 Act in relation to that person, the Registrar General must (subject to any appeal)—

(a) cancel the entry relating to the person in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register, or the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register, as the case may be, and

(b) cancel any marking of an entry relating to the person made by virtue of regulation 5(1)(b) or 15(1)(b).

Revocation of gender recognition certificate etc.

21.—(1) This regulation applies if, after an entry has been made in one of the GR registers in relation to a person, the High Court, the Court of Session or the family court makes an order under section 8(6) of the 2004 Act(2) quashing the decision to grant the person’s application under section 1(1), 4A, 5(2), 5A(2) or 6(1) of the 2004 Act(3).

(2) Subject to any appeal, the Registrar General must, on being notified of an order under section 8(6) of the 2004 Act—

(a) cancel the entry relating to the person in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register, or the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register, as the case may be, and

(b) cancel any marking of an entry relating to the person made by virtue of regulation 5(1)(b) or 15(1)(b).

(1)

Section 6 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to the 2013 Act.

(2)

Section 8 was amended by section 250(5)(b) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004 (c. 33); paragraph 160 of Schedule 11(1) to the Crime and Courts Act 2013 (c. 22); and paragraph 8 of Schedule 5 to the 2013 Act.

(3)

Section 4A was inserted by paragraph 4 of Schedule 5 to, the 2013 Act; section 5(2) was amended by section 250(1) and (3)(a) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004; section 5A was inserted by section 250(4) of the Civil Partnership Act 2004; and section 6 was amended by paragraph 6 of Schedule 5 to, the 2013 Act.