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Section 5B Marriages involving person of acquired genderF1

(1)

A clergyman is not obliged to solemnise the marriage of a person if the clergyman reasonably believes that the person’s gender has become the acquired gender under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.

(2)

A clerk in Holy Orders of the Church in Wales is not obliged to permit the marriage of a person to be solemnised in the church or chapel of which the clerk is the minister if the clerk reasonably believes that the person’s gender has become the acquired gender under that Act.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

S. 5B inserted (4.4.2005) by Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c. 7), s. 26, Sch. 4 para. 3; S.I. 2005/54, art. 2

Notes on Part II

Modifications

C1

Pt. II applied by Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969 (c. 38), s. 6(2)