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House of Commons

 
 

Thursday 7 March 2013

 

Public Bill Committee

 

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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill


 

Note

 

The Amendments have been arranged in accordance with the Order of the

 

Committee [12 February].

 


 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

Jim Shannon

 

49

 

Clause  9,  page  9,  line  5,  at end insert—

 

‘(1A)    

Such a procedure must include a ceremony which reflects the requirements of

 

Section 1(2).’.

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

Jim Shannon

 

50

 

Clause  9,  page  9,  line  8,  at end insert—

 

‘(2A)    

Such a procedure must include a ceremony which reflects the requirements of

 

Section 1(2).’.

 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

7

 

Clause  9,  page  10,  line  24,  at end insert—

 

‘(9)    

Where a civil partnership formed under part 1, section 96 of the Civil Partnership

 

Act (Civil Partnership with former spouse) is converted into a marriage under this

 

section—

 

(a)    

the civil partnership ends on the conversion, and


 
 

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(b)    

if both partners so elect, the resulting marriage is to be treated as having

 

subsisted since the marriage dissolved under Schedule 2 of the Gender

 

Recognition Act 2004 was formed.’.

 


 

Jim Shannon

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

41

 

Schedule  2,  page  21,  line  29,  leave out paragraph 2.

 

Jim Shannon

 

Tim Loughton

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

46

 

Schedule  2,  page  21,  line  41,  leave out ‘, or by virtue of paragraph 2,’.

 

Jim Shannon

 

Tim Loughton

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

47

 

Schedule  2,  page  21,  line  42,  leave out ‘or 2(2)’.

 

Jim Shannon

 

Tim Loughton

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

48

 

Schedule  2,  page  22,  line  28,  leave out sub-sub-paragraph (b).

 


 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Jim Shannon

 

Tim Loughton

 

39

 

Clause  11,  page  10,  line  41,  leave out subsections (1) and (2).

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

Jim Shannon

 

61

 

Clause  11,  page  10,  line  41,  leave out subsection (1) and insert—

 

‘(1)    

In this Act—

 

(a)    

references to “marriage” in relation to same sex couples shall be changed

 

to “union”.


 
 

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(b)    

in the law of England and Wales, “union” has the same effect in relation

 

to same sex couples as “marriage” has in relation to opposite sex

 

couples.’.

 


 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

Jim Shannon

 

44

 

Schedule  3,  page  23,  leave out from line 30 to line 29 on page 24.

 


 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Jim Shannon

 

Tim Loughton

 

42

 

Schedule  4,  page  26,  line  9,  leave out paragraphs 3 and 4.

 

Mr Rob Wilson

 

37

 

Schedule  4,  page  26,  line  14,  leave out sub-paragraph (2).

 

Mr Rob Wilson

 

38

 

Schedule  4,  page  26,  line  21,  leave out sub-paragraph (3).

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

56

 

Schedule  4,  page  33,  line  40,  leave out paragraph 15 and insert—

 

‘15(1)  

Schedule 9 of the Equality Act 2010 (work: exceptions) is amended as follows.

 

      (2)  

Omit sub-paragraph 18(1).’.

 

Kate Green

 

62

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  4,  at end insert—

 

‘(c)    

a woman who is married to a woman who is her spouse where—

 

(i)    

the spouse is a woman by virtue of a full gender recognition

 

certificate having been issued under the Gender Recognition

 

Act 2004, and

 

(ii)    

the marriage subsisted before the time when that certificate

 

was issued.’.

 

Kate Green

 

64

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  21,  at end insert—

 

  ‘(2A)  

In subsection (3) after “widow’s”, insert “or a survivor same sex spouse’s,

 

where within (4C) below,”.’.


 
 

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Kate Green

 

63

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  22,  leave out ‘after “partner’s” insert “or surviving same

 

sex spouse’s”.’ and insert ‘—

 

(a)    

after “partner’s” insert “or surviving same sex spouse’s”;

 

(b)    

at end insert “but this limitation does not apply to a surviving same sex

 

spouse by virtue of gender recognition as defined in (4C) below.”.’.

 

Kate Green

 

65

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  22,  at end insert—

 

  ‘(3A)  

After subsection (4B) insert—

 

“(4C)  

A surviving same sex spouse is ‘a same sex spouse by virtue of

 

gender recognition’ where she was married to—

 

(a)    

a spouse who was a woman by virtue of a full gender

 

recognition certificate having been issued under the Gender

 

Recognition Act 2004, and

 

(b)    

the marriage subsisted before the time when that certificate

 

was issued.”.’.

 

Kate Green

 

66

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  29,  leave out ‘is a man married to a woman, and the

 

earner’ and insert ‘is a man married to a woman, or a woman within (4) below who is

 

married to a woman, and the earner’.

 

Kate Green

 

67

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  32,  leave out ‘is a married woman, a man married to a

 

man, or a civil partner, and the earner dies’ and insert ‘is a married woman except within

 

(4) below, a man married to man, or a civil partner, and the earner dies’.

 

Kate Green

 

68

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  34,  at end insert—

 

    ‘(4)  

A woman by virtue of a full gender recognition certificate having been issued

 

under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, whose marriage subsisted before the

 

time when that certificate was issued.’.

 

Kate Green

 

69

 

Schedule  4,  page  34,  line  35,  leave out ‘, in subsection (4), for “widower or

 

surviving civil partner of an earner” substitute “widower of a female earner, the survivor

 

of a marriage with an earner of the same sex, or the survivor of a civil partnership with an

 

earner,”.’ and insert ‘—

 

(a)    

in subsection (4), for “widower or surviving civil partner of an earner”

 

substitute “widower of a female earner, the survivor of a marriage with

 

an earner of the same sex, or the survivor of a civil partnership with an

 

earner,”;


 
 

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(b)    

at the end insert—

 

  “(5)  

The limitation in subsection 4 shall not apply to the

 

survivor of a marriage with an earner of the same sex in

 

which the survivor was married to—

 

(a)    

a spouse who was a woman by virtue of a full

 

gender recognition certificate having been issued

 

under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, and

 

(b)    

the marriage subsisted before the time when that

 

certificate was issued.”.’.

 


 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

5

 

Schedule  5,  page  36,  leave out lines 10 to 37 and insert—

 

            

‘Section 4 (successful applications): for subsections (2) and (3) substitute—

 

  “(2)  

The certificate is to be a full gender recognition certificate if—

 

(a)    

the applicant is not a civil partner and does not request an

 

interim gender recognition certificate,

 

(b)    

or the applicant is a civil partner who does not request an

 

interim gender recognition certificate and the Panel has

 

decided to issue a full gender recognition certificate to the

 

other party to the civil partnership.

 

      (3)  

The certificate is to be an interim gender recognition certificate if

 

either—

 

(a)    

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),

 

(b)    

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,

 

(c)    

or the applicant is party to a protected marriage, requests an

 

interim gender recognition certificate and the application

 

includes a statutory declaration of consent from the

 

applicant’s spouse.

 

    (3A)  

If a gender recognition panel issues a full gender recognition

 

certificate under this section to an applicant who is a party to a

 

marriage or civil partnership, the panel must give the applicant’s

 

spouse notice of the issue of the certificate.”.’.

 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

6

 

Schedule  5,  page  39,  line  39,  leave out ‘(by virtue of section 4(2)(b) or 4A)’.


 
 

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Hugh Bayley

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

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Schedule  5,  page  40,  line  18,  at end insert—

 

‘Reinstatement of marriages annulled to permit a person to obtain a gender recognition

 

certificate

 

9A         

Schedule 4 (Effect on Marriage) at beginning insert:

 

      (1)  

This section applies to a formerly married couple whose marriage was

 

annulled in order to permit one or both partners to that marriage to obtain a full

 

gender recognition certificate provided that:

 

(a)    

the marriage was annulled following the coming into force of the

 

Gender Recognition Act 2004, and

 

(b)    

the formerly married couple either:

 

(i)    

formed a civil partnership with each other within six months

 

of the annulment of their marriage, and continue to maintain

 

their civil partnership, or

 

(ii)    

have continued to live together in the same household since

 

the annulment of their marriage, and

 

(iii)    

both partners to the former marriage give notice that they wish

 

their marriage to be reinstated - with effect from the date that

 

it was annulled.

 

      (2)  

When notice is given under section (1)(b)(iii), the marriage shall be reinstated

 

with effect from the date it was annulled.

 

      (3)  

In such circumstances the continuity of the marriage shall not be affected in

 

any way and all legal rights that accrued to either party to that marriage will be

 

reinstated - including the right to pensions, tax status in the UK, rights to

 

property and inheritance.

 

      (4)  

In those cases where the couple subsequently formed a civil partnership, the

 

civil partnership shall be set aside.

 

      (5)  

The couple whose marriage is reinstated shall be compensated from public

 

funds for the costs they incurred in annulling the marriage, seperating their

 

financial affairs, forming a civil parthership and in respect of their costs

 

incurred in the UK or abroad as a result of the annulmen tof their marriage.”.’.

 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

8

 

Schedule  5,  page  40,  leave out lines 30 to 31 and insert—

 

‘(a)    

the registration of qualifying marriages,

 

(b)    

the registration of qualifying civil partnerships,

 

(c)    

the issue of replacement marriage certificates displaying the new

 

details of the parties to the marriage but maintaining the original date,

 

(d)    

the issue of replacement birth certificates where the application is

 

shown on the certificate, with the consent of the other parent named

 

and—

 

(i)    

where the child has reached 16 years of age, the consent of the

 

child to whom the birth certificate relates,


 
 

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(ii)    

where the child has not yet reached the age of 16 years, the

 

consent of the other parent named on the birth certificate,

 

where present.’.

 


 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

4

 

Schedule  7,  page  50,  line  37,  at end insert—

 

‘(24A)  

Section 12 (grounds on which a marriage is voidable): omit paragraph (h).’.

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

Jim Shannon

 

30

 

Schedule  7,  page  52,  line  26,  at end insert—

 

‘Human Rights Act 1998. (c.42)

 

42         

The Human Rights Act 1998 is amended as follows.

 

43         

Section 6: after subsection 3 insert—

 

“(3A)    

A “public authority” for the purposes of this section does not include

 

a relevant governing authority or relevant religious organisation in

 

respect of functions relating to giving any consent or to refusing to

 

give any consent provided for in sections 2, 4, 5, or 7 of the [Marriage

 

(Same Sex Couples)] Act 2013.”.’.

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

Jim Shannon

 

31

 

Schedule  7,  page  52,  line  26,  at end insert—

 

‘42      

The Education Act 1996 is amended as follows.

 

43         

Section 403 (sex education: manner of provision), after subsection (1D)

 

insert—

 

“(1E)    

For the purposes of subsection (1A), no school shall be under any duty

 

as a result of guidance issued, to promote or endorse any

 

understanding of the nature of marriage that is contrary to the

 

character and designation of the school.”.’.

 

Mr David Burrowes

 

Tim Loughton

 

Jim Shannon

 

32

 

Schedule  7,  page  52,  line  26,  at end insert—

 

‘Public Order Act 1986

 

42  (1)  

Section 29JA is amended as follows.


 
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