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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-consequential-and-contrary-provisions-and-scotland-order-2014/schedule-1/paragraph-35",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2014/560",
  "legislation_title": "The Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 (Consequential and Contrary Provisions and Scotland) Order 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013-consequential-and-contrary-provisions-and-scotland-order-2014",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/35",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "35",
  "heading": "Equality Act 2010",
  "text": "(1) The Equality Act 2010 is amended as follows.\n(2) In section 67 (sex equality rule), for subsection (7) substitute—\n“(7) If the effect of a relevant matter on a person (A) differs according to the effect it has on a person of the same sex as A, according to whether A is married, in a civil partnership, or for some other reason due to A’s family status, a comparison for the purposes of this section of the effect of that matter on persons of the opposite sex must be with a person of the opposite sex to A who is in the same position as A and in particular—\n(a) where A is married to someone of the opposite sex, A is to be compared to a person of the opposite sex to A (“B”) where B is married to someone of the opposite sex to B;\n(b) where A is married to someone of the same sex as A or is in a civil partnership, A is to be compared to B where B is married to someone of the same sex as B or is in a civil partnership.”.\n(3) Omit section 80(7) (interpretation and exceptions).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 para. 35 in force at 13.3.2014, see art. 1(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "2010 c. 15."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2014/560/schedule/1/paragraph/35",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:24:05.422209+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."
}