Section 11C Continuity of marriage: ScotlandF1

United Kingdom

(1)

This section applies in relation to a protected Scottish marriage if (by virtue of section 4(3C)(a), 4C or 4E) a full gender recognition certificate is issued to a party to the marriage.

(2)

The continuity of the protected Scottish marriage is not affected by the issuing of a full gender recognition certificate.

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Textual amendments

F1: Ss. 11C, 11D inserted (E.W) (16.12.2014) by The Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 and Civil Partnership Act 2004 (Consequential Provisions and Modifications) Order 2014 (S.I. 2014/3229), art. 1(2), Sch. 5 para. 15(6); and inserted (S.) (16.12.2014) by Marriage and Civil Partnership (Scotland) Act 2014 (asp 5), s. 36, Sch. 2 paras. 10, 11; S.S.I. 2014/287, art. 3, Sch.; and which insertion is extended to N.I. (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), 45(2) (with regs. 6-9)