{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-register-marriage-and-civil-partnership-regulations-2015/regulation-16",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-register-marriage-and-civil-partnership-regulations-2015/regulation-16.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2015/50",
  "legislation_title": "The Gender Recognition Register (Marriage and Civil Partnership) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-register-marriage-and-civil-partnership-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/16",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16",
  "heading": "Particulars to be contained in Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register",
  "text": "(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2) and regulations 16A to 16D, the particulars to be registered in an entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register are the same particulars as were required by law to be registered in the parties’ civil partnership register entry.\n(2) Any entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register must reflect the parties’ names and gender referred to on the gender recognition certificate, or certificates, granted to one or both parties.\n(3) There is no requirement for an entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register to be signed by any person, but the Registrar General must register the name of any person who signed the parties’ civil partnership register entry as if they had signed the entry in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register.\n(4) Where a civil partnership is registered in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register as having been formed in Wales, the particulars to be contained in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register must be recorded in English, and must also be recorded in Welsh if the parties so elect, and provide the required particulars in both languages.\n(5) In regulations 16A to 16C—\n(a) references to a register office mean the register office that is agreed between the Registrar General and the parties to the qualifying civil partnership;\n(b) references to a civil partnership registrar are to a civil partnership registrar in post on the applicable date for the area in which the register office is situated;\n(c) “applicable date” means the date on which the qualifying civil partnership is recorded in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register as having been formed.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(1) inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 36(3)(a) (with reg. 35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(2) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 36(3)(b) (with reg. 35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in reg. 16(4) substituted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 36(3)(c) (with reg. 35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Reg. 16(5) inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 36(3)(d) (with reg. 35)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 16 in force at 6.2.2015, see reg. 1"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/50/regulation/16",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:49:57.259313+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."
}