# Data (Use and Access) Act 2025, Paragraph 26: Gender Recognition Act 2004

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.
Status: prospective

(1) Section 10 (registration) is amended as follows.
(2) 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,”.
(3) 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.”

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2025/18/schedule/3/paragraph/26 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/data-use-and-access-act-2025/schedule-3/paragraph-26
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