Clause 1 - Applications
Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]
11:00 am
Mr David Lammy (Parliamentary Under-Secretary, Department for Constitutional Affairs; Tottenham, Labour)
I am very grateful for that. It is also important that applications should not be restricted to UK citizens. We have discussed that this morning.
Citizens from other countries live, work and marry in this country and they should be free to do so in their acquired gender if they meet the criteria that will be applied by the gender recognition panel. To that end, a robust and credible process must be established to determine applications for recognition. Clause 1 provides that applications will be dealt with by gender recognition panels, which will be composed of medical and legal members appointed to the list by the Lord Chancellor. On that basis, I hope that we have dealt with clause 1 in some detail.
Question put and agreed to.
Clause 1 ordered to stand part of the Bill.