Repeal of section 4F
71.Section 4F of the Gender Recognition Act provides a mechanism for a person with an interim gender recognition certificate to obtain a full gender recognition certificate where:
the person’s civil partner dies within 6 months of their submitting notice of their intention to change their civil partnership into a marriage, or
within 6 months of their civil partnership changing into a marriage the person’s spouse died.
72.Paragraph 5(8) of schedule 2 repeals section 4F because the other changes the schedule makes to the Gender Recognition Act mean that changing a civil partnership into a marriage is no longer a necessary step on the route to obtaining a full gender recognition certificate (see, in particular, the discussion above in relation to sections 4 and 4C of the Gender Recognition Act).
