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

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).

(1)

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