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House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Tuesday 12 February 2013

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s):

 

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill Committee 13-17

 

Public Bill Committee


 

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

2

 

Clause  8,  page  8,  line  17,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

 

Kate Green

 

Chris Bryant

 

3

 

Clause  8,  page  8,  line  20,  leave out ‘may’ and insert ‘shall’.

 

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).’.

 

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—


 
 

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(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)’.

 

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

 

(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.’.

 

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,

 

(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.’.

 


 
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