{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-26.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2025/18",
  "legislation_title": "Data (Use and Access) Act 2025",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/26",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Gender Recognition Act 2004",
  "text": "(1) Section 10 (registration) is amended as follows.\n(2) In subsection (2), omit the “or” after paragraph (a) and after paragraph (b) insert\n“, or\n(c) an entry in a register kept under section 1 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953,”.\n(3) For subsection (3) substitute—\n“(3) “The appropriate Registrar General” means—\n(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;\n(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.\n(3A) For the purposes of this section each of the following is a Registrar General—\n(a) the Registrar General for England and Wales;\n(b) the Registrar General for Scotland;\n(c) the Registrar General for Northern Ireland.”",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": "prospective",
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 26 not in force at Royal Assent, see s. 142(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/schedule/3/paragraph/26",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T08:46:53.494367+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}