[F15CProtected Scottish civil partnership: applications by both civil partnersS
(1)This section applies where a Gender Recognition Panel decides to issue a full gender recognition certificate to a party to a protected Scottish 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 Scottish 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.]
Textual Amendments
F1Ss. 5C, 5D inserted (S.) (1.9.2014 for specified purposes) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), s. 36, Sch. 2 para. 7; S.S.I. 2014/212, art. 2, Sch. (as amended (1.9.2014) by S.S.I. 2014/218, art. 2(3), Sch.)