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1109

 

House of Commons

 
 

Notices of Amendments

 

given on

 

Tuesday 26 March 2013

 

For other Amendment(s) see the following page(s) of Supplement to Votes:

 

953-59 and 1103-06

 

Consideration of Bill


 

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

 

Greg Mulholland

 

10

 

Page  26,  line  12  [Schedule  4],  leave out paragraphs 3 and 4 and insert—

 

‘Divorce

 

3    (1)  

Section 1 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (divorce on breakdown of

 

marriage) is amended as follows.

 

      (2)  

Leave out subsection (2)(a).

 

Annulment of marriage

 

4    (1)  

Section 12 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (grounds on which marriage

 

is voidable) is amended as follows.

 

      (2)  

Leave out paragraphs (a) and (b).’.

 

Greg Mulholland

 

11

 

Page  1,  line  6  [Clause  1],  after ‘same sex couple’, insert ‘or opposite sex couple’.

 

Repeal of Civil Partnership Act 2004

 

Greg Mulholland

 

NC13

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

The Civil Partnership Act 2004 is repealed.

 

(2)    

Secondary legislation made under that Act shall continue in force unless it is

 

subsequently amended or repealed, and any such amendments or repeals may be

 

made by statutory instrument subject to annulment in pursuance of a resolution

 

of either House of Parliament.


 
 

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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, continued

 
 

(3)    

This section shall have effect on the date that the Marriage (Same Sex Couples)

 

Act comes into force.’.

 

Civil union

 

Greg Mulholland

 

NC14

 

To move the following Clause:—

 

‘(1)    

Two people, whether they are of different or the same sex, may enter into a civil

 

union if—

 

(a)    

they are both aged 18 or over;

 

(b)    

they are not within prohibited degrees of relationship;

 

(c)    

they are not currently in a civil union with someone else.

 

(2)    

A civil union must be solemnized by a Registrar.

 

(3)    

No religious service is to be used while the civil union registrar is officiating at

 

the signing of a civil union document.

 

(4)    

A civil union ends only on death, dissolution or annulment.

 

(5)    

The Marriage Act 1949 is repealed.’.

 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

12

 

Page  50,  line  37  [Schedule  7],  at end insert—

 

‘(24A)  

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

 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

13

 

Page  36  [Schedule  5],  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 deceided 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

 

had decided not to issue a full gender recognition certificate to the

 

other party to the civil partnership,

 

(c)    

or the applicants 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.”.’.


 
 

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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, continued

 
 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

14

 

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

 

Dr Julian Huppert

 

15

 

Page  10,  line  24  [Clause  9],  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

 

16

 

Page  40  [Schedule  5],  leave out lines 30 and 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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