Other provision about applications and certificates

5BApplications by both civil partners

1

This section applies where the Panel decides to issue a full gender recognition certificate to a party to a protected 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 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.