Regulation 6 Particulars to be entered in Gender Recognition Marriage RegisterI1

England and Wales

(1)

Except as provided in paragraph (2) and regulations 7 to 11, the particulars to be registered in the parties’ entry in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register are the same particulars as were required by law to be registered in the parties’ marriage register entry.

(2)

Any entry in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register must reflect the name and gender referred to on the full gender recognition certificate, or certificates, granted to one or both parties.

(3)

There is no requirement for an entry in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register to be signed by any person, but (except as provided in regulations 7 to 11) the Registrar General must register the name of any person who signed the parties’ F1—

(a)

marriage register entry, in the case of a marriage solemnized before 4th May 2021,

(b)

marriage schedule, in the case of a marriage solemnized on or after 4th May 2021, or

(c)

civil partnership document, in the case of a marriage resulting from the conversion of a civil partnership,

in the manner in which the names were recorded in the parties’ marriage register entry, marriage schedule or civil partnership document (as the case may be).

(4)

Where a marriage is registered in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register as having been solemnized in Wales, the particulars to be contained in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register must be recorded in English, and must also be recorded in Welsh if the parties to the marriage so elect, and provide the required particulars in both languages.

(5)

In regulations 7 to 10—

(a)

references to a register office mean the register office that is agreed between the Registrar General and the parties to the qualifying marriage;

(b)

references to a superintendent registrar mean the superintendent registrar in post on the applicable date for the registration district^f1 in which the register office or approved premises (as the case may be) is situated;

(c)

“applicable date” means the date on which the qualifying marriage is registered in the Gender Recognition Marriage Register as having been solemnized.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 6(3)(a)-(c) and words substituted for words (4.5.2021) by The Registration of Marriages Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/411), reg. 1(2), Sch. 1 para. 68(2) (with Sch. 2)

Commencement

I1: Reg. 6 in force at 6.2.2015, see reg. 1

Footnotes

f1: Registration district is defined in section 5 of the Registration Service Act 1953 (c. 37).