Paragraph 26 Gender Recognition Act 2004I1

Section 10 (registration) is amended as follows.

In subsection (2), omit the “or” after paragraph (a) and after paragraph (b) insert

“, or

(c)

an entry in a register kept under section 1 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953,”.

For subsection (3) substitute—

“(3)

“The appropriate Registrar General” means—

(a)

in relation to a UK birth register entry of which a certified copy is kept by a Registrar General or which is in a register so kept, whichever Registrar General keeps that certified copy or that register;

(b)

in relation to a UK birth register entry in a register kept under section 1 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953, the Registrar General for England and Wales.

(3A)

For the purposes of this section each of the following is a Registrar General—

(a)

the Registrar General for England and Wales;

(b)

the Registrar General for Scotland;

(c)

the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.”