Rule 3.44.2 F1
This rule applies where a party to a protected Scottish marriage who has been issued with an interim gender recognition certificate makes an application to the sheriff under section 4E of the 2004 Act for the issue of a full gender recognition certificate.
The sheriff shall make an order for intimation of the application on the applicant’s spouse, but no such order may be made unless there has been produced with the initial writ—
an extract of the relevant entry in the register of marriages; and
the interim gender recognition certificate or, failing that, a certified copy of the interim gender recognition certificate.
For the purpose of this rule, a certified copy of an interim gender recognition certificate shall be a copy of that certificate sealed with the seal of the Gender Recognition Panels and certified to be a true copy by an officer authorised by the President of the Gender Recognition Panels.
On the granting of the application the sheriff clerk shall give the applicant’s spouse a certified copy of the full gender recognition certificate.
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Textual amendments
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Ch. 3 Pt. 44 inserted (16.12.2014) by Act of Sederunt (Rules of the Court of Session and Sheriff Court Rules Amendment No. 2) (Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014) 2014 (S.S.I. 2014/302), paras. 1(2), 7(2)