# Gender Recognition Act 2004, Section 21: Foreign gender change and marriage

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

(1) A person’s gender is not to be regarded as having changed by reason only that it has changed under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.
(1A) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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(6) Nothing in this section prevents the exercise of any right which forms part of assimilated law by virtue of section 3 ... of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2004/7/section/21 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-act-2004/section-21
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