Schedule 4 - Effect on marriage
Gender Recognition Bill [Lords]
9:30 am
Mr David Taylor (North West Leicestershire, Labour/Co-operative)
I remind the Committee that with this we are discussing the following:
Amendment No. 43, in
schedule 4, page 26, line 34, at end insert—
'(3) A registrar of births, marriages and deaths is not obliged to solemnise the marriage of a person if the registrar reasonably believes that the person's gender has become the acquired gender under the Gender Recognition Act 2004.'.
Amendment No. 45, in
clause 22, page 9, line 37, at end insert—
'( ) the disclosure is made within the context of a recognised religious body for the purpose of maintaining its procedures, practices, ethos and beliefs.'.
New clause 5—Religious bodies—
'Nothing in this Act shall prejudice the rights of individual recognised religious bodies to regulate their procedures and practices in accordance with their ethos and beliefs.'.