{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-act-2004/schedule-3/paragraph-33",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2004/7",
  "legislation_title": "Gender Recognition Act 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-act-2004",
  "path": "schedule/3/paragraph/33",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "33",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "(1) The Department of Finance in Northern Ireland may by regulations make provision about—\n(a) the registration of qualifying marriages, and\n(b) the registration of qualifying civil partnerships.\n(2) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may, in particular, make provision for—\n(a) the maintenance of—\n(i) a separate register in relation to qualifying marriages, and\n(ii) a separate register in relation to qualifying civil partnerships;\n(b) fees to be payable in respect of things done under the regulations.\n(3) Regulations under sub-paragraph (1) may make different provision for different cases or circumstances.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n“qualifying civil partnership” means a civil partnership under the law of Northern Ireland in a case where a full gender recognition certificate has been issued to one, or each, of the civil partners;\n“qualifying marriage” means a marriage under the law of Northern Ireland in a case where a full gender recognition certificate has been issued to one, or each, of the spouses.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3 para. 33 and cross-heading inserted (13.1.2020) by The Marriage (Same-sex Couples) and Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) (Northern Ireland) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1514), regs. 1(2), 48 (with regs. 6-9)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:17:21.791018+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."
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