Clause 24
Equality Bill
10:00 am
Tim Boswell (Daventry, Conservative)
Does the hon. Gentleman not agree at least that the major test in terms of the service users—in that case, the gay couple who wished to recognise and celebrate their relationship in a civil partnership—is whether they are able to use the service? If the registrar is the only registrar in a local authority area and such a couple are unable to discharge their wishes because there is no other person who can fulfil them, that perhaps makes the case significantly different from whatever reservations of conscience an individual registrar might have.