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<Text>Where a gender recognition certificate has been issued to a person, the person or the Secretary of State may make an application for a corrected certificate on the ground that the certificate which has been issued contains an error.</Text>
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<Text>If the certificate was issued by a court the application is to be determined by the court but in any other case it is to be determined by a Gender Recognition Panel.</Text>
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<Text>The court or Panel—</Text>
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<Text>must grant the application if satisfied that the gender recognition certificate contains an error, and</Text>
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<Text>otherwise must reject it.</Text>
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<Text>If the court or Panel grants the application it must issue a corrected gender recognition certificate to the applicant.</Text>
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