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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2014/article-3",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/93",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Commencement No. 2 and Transitional Provision) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-commencement-no-2-and-transitional-provision-order-2014",
  "path": "article/3",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": "Provisions coming into force on 13th March 2014",
  "text": "The following provisions of the Act come into force on 13th March 2014—\n(a) sections 1 to 3;\n(b) section 4 so far as it is not already in force;\n(c) section 5;\n(d) sections 7 and 8;\n(e) section 10(1) and (2);\n(f) section 11(1) to (3) and (5) to (7);\n(g) Schedule 1 so far as it is not already in force;\n(h) paragraphs 2(1), 3 and 4 of Schedule 2, and section 10(3) so far as it relates to those paragraphs;\n(i) Schedule 3;\n(j) the following paragraphs of Schedule 4 so far as they are not already in force, and section 11(4) so far as it relates to those paragraphs—\n(i) paragraphs 1 to 10;\n(ii) paragraphs 11 to 14 except so far as they relate to a case where a spouse is, or was at the time of her death, a woman by virtue of a full gender recognition certificate having been issued under the Gender Recognition Act 2004 and the marriage subsisted before the time when that certificate was issued;\n(iii) paragraph 17 except so far as it relates to a relevant gender change case for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010;\n(iv) paragraph 18 except so far as it relates to a relevant gender change case for the purposes of the Pension Schemes Act 1993;\n(v) paragraph 19;\n(vi) paragraphs 20 to 22 except so far as they relate to a relevant gender change case for the purposes of the Pension Schemes Act 1993;\n(vii) paragraphs 24 to 26; and\n(viii) paragraph 27(1) and (2); and\n(k) the following paragraphs of Schedule 7, and section 17(4) so far as it relates to those paragraphs—\n(i) paragraphs 1 to 20;\n(ii) paragraphs 22 to 28;\n(iii) paragraphs 31 to 33; and\n(iv) paragraphs 35 to 45.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2004 c. 7."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "2010 c. 15."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "1993 c. 48."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/93/article/3",
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  },
  "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."
}