{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-register-marriage-and-civil-partnership-regulations-2015/regulation-16D",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/gender-recognition-register-marriage-and-civil-partnership-regulations-2015/regulation-16D.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/16D",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "16D",
  "heading": "Power to amend particulars",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General may, after consulting the parties to a qualifying civil partnership, amend the particulars required to be registered under these Regulations as the Registrar General considers necessary to ensure that the particulars registered in the Gender Recognition Civil Partnership Register do not disclose that one party has, or both parties have, obtained a gender recognition certificate.\n(2) Under paragraph (1), the Registrar General may, in particular, substitute for the name or names of one or both witnesses to the formation of the civil partnership the name or names of one or two other persons who were present at the formation of the civil partnership.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regs. 16A-16D inserted (2.12.2019) by The Civil Partnership (Opposite-sex Couples) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/1458), regs. 1(2), 36(4) (with reg. 35)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2015/50/regulation/16D",
    "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."
}