{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-5",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/marriage-same-sex-couples-act-2013/schedule-5/paragraph-5.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/5",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "5",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "After section 5A insert—\n“Other provision about applications and certificates\nApplications by both civil partners\n5B (1) This section applies where the Panel decides to issue a full gender recognition certificate to a party to a protected civil partnership.\n(2) The Panel must not issue the full gender recognition certificate to that person unless the Panel issues a full gender recognition certificate to the other party to the protected civil partnership.\n(3) In such a case, the Panel must issue both certificates on the same day.\n(4) Those certificates take effect at the beginning of the day on which they are issued.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Sch. 5 para. 5 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/5",
    "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."
}