Article 12 Amendments to the Family Procedure Rules 2010

In rule 29.6 (documents in proceedings concerning gender recognition)—

(a)

in paragraph (1)—

(i)

in sub-paragraph (a)—

(aa)

for “section 12(g) or (h)” substitute “section 12(1)(g) or (h)”; and

(bb)

omit “or” the third time it occurs; and

(ii)

after sub-paragraph (a), insert—

“(aa)
section 12A(3) of the 1973 Act in a case where section 12(1)(g) or (h) of the 1973 Act applies; or”; and

(b)

after paragraph (2), insert—

“(In relation to paragraph (1)(aa), section 9(6) of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 provides that where a civil partnership is converted into a marriage, the civil partnership ends on the conversion, and the resulting marriage is to be treated as having subsisted since the date the civil partnership was formed.)”.