{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-3",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-3.json",
  "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/3",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "3",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Section 4 (successful applications): for subsections (2) and (3) substitute—\n“(2) The certificate is to be a full gender recognition certificate if—\n(a) the applicant is neither a civil partner nor married,\n(b) the applicant is a party to a protected marriage and the applicant's spouse consents to the marriage continuing after the issue of a full gender recognition certificate, or\n(c) the applicant is a party to a protected civil partnership and the Panel has decided to issue a full gender recognition certificate to the other party to the civil partnership.\n(3) The certificate is to be an interim gender recognition certificate if—\n(a) the applicant is a party to a protected marriage and the applicant's spouse does not consent to the marriage continuing after the issue of a full gender recognition certificate,\n(b) the applicant is a party to a marriage that is not a protected marriage,\n(c) the applicant is a party to a protected civil partnership and the other party to the civil partnership has not made an application under section 1(1),\n(d) the applicant is a party to a protected civil partnership and the Panel has decided not to issue a full gender recognition certificate to the other party to the civil partnership, or\n(e) the applicant is a party to a civil partnership that is not a protected civil partnership.\n(3A) If a Gender Recognition Panel issues a full gender recognition certificate under this section to an applicant who is a party to a protected marriage, the Panel must give the applicant's spouse notice of the issue of the certificate.\n(3B) Subsection (2)(c) is subject to section 5B.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 3 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/3",
    "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."
}