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

Qualifying marriages solemnized outside the United Kingdom

10.—(1) Unless paragraph (2) applies, the Registrar General must not register in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register any particulars that would indicate that a qualifying marriage of a same sex couple, or between a man and a woman (as the case may be) was solemnized outside the United Kingdom according to the law of England and Wales.

(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply if, on the applicable date, the authorities in the country or territory in which the marriage was solemnized had notified the Secretary of State in writing that there is no objection to marriages of same sex couples, or between a man and a woman (as the case may be) taking place in that country or territory, and had not revoked that consent.

(3) Where paragraph (1) applies, the marriage is to be registered in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register as if it had been solemnized in the presence of a superintendent registrar in a register office in the form prescribed on the applicable date under section 55(1) of the Marriage Act 1949.