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Regulation 5 Entries in Gender Recognition Marriage Register and marking of existing marriage entriesI1

England and Wales

(1)

On receipt of a duly completed application under regulation 4(1), and any additional information requested in accordance with regulation 4(4), the Registrar General must—

(a)

make an entry in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register containing the particulars referred to in regulation 6;

(b)

secure that any marriage register entry relating to the qualifying marriage in the custody of the Registrar General is marked with the words “Re-registered by the Registrar General”; and

(c)

make traceable the connection between the entry in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register and the parties’ marriage register entry.

(2)

No certified copy of the parties’ marriage register entry is to include anything marked by virtue of paragraph (1)(b).

(3)

Information kept by the Registrar General for the purposes of paragraph (1)(c) is not to be open to public inspection or search.

Annotations

Commencement

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Reg. 5 in force at 6.2.2015, see reg. 1