{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-2",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/2013/30",
  "legislation_title": "Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013",
  "path": "schedule/5/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 3 (evidence): after subsection (6) insert—\n“(6A) If the applicant is married, an application under section 1(1) must include a statutory declaration as to whether the marriage is a marriage under the law of England and Wales, of Scotland, of Northern Ireland, or of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.\n(6B) If the applicant is married, and the marriage is a protected marriage, an application under section 1(1) must also include—\n(a) a statutory declaration by the applicant's spouse that the spouse consents to the marriage continuing after the issue of a full gender recognition certificate (“a statutory declaration of consent”) (if the spouse has made such a declaration), or\n(b) a statutory declaration by the applicant that the applicant's spouse has not made a statutory declaration of consent (if that is the case).\n(6C) If an application includes a statutory declaration of consent by the applicant's spouse, the Gender Recognition Panel must give the spouse notice that the application has been made.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 2 in force at 10.12.2014 by S.I. 2014/3169, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2013/30/schedule/5/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:08:02.807963+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."
}