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Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber (19 June 2013)

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Committee of the whole House (Day 2) – Baroness Stowell of Beeston. Legislation

Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber (17 June 2013)

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Committee of the whole House – Baroness Stowell of Beeston. Legislation

Upcoming Business – Lords: Main Chamber (3 June 2013)

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill - Second reading – Baroness Stowell of Beeston. Legislation

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — First Reading (21 May 2013)

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill — First Reading

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 6 — Marriage overseas (21 May 2013) See 9 other results from this debate

Peter Bottomley: The Bill passed its Second Reading by 400 votes to 175. The amendments wrecking it were rejected by seven to one. We last redefined marriage in 1973 when we brought in the prohibition on same-sex marriage. I think it is time to undo that and define marriage as being between two people who are qualified to marry.

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Clause 9 — Conversion of civil partnership into marriage (21 May 2013) See 15 other results from this debate

Julian Huppert: ...to a range of people. I am grateful for the tone in which the debate has been conducted by almost everybody; it has been productive. I know that people from the trans community and other minority sexual communities who have been watching are impressed that Parliament is able to discuss these matters. The hon. Member for Bournemouth East (Mr Ellwood), who is no longer in his place, said...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Schedule 4 — Effect of extension of marriage: further provision (21 May 2013)

...; to end of line 30 on page 27 and insert ‘is amended in accordance with this paragraph. ‘(2) Subsection (1): after “entertain” insert “any of the following proceedings in relation to a marriage of a man and a woman”. (3) After subsection (5) insert— “(5A) Schedule A1 (jurisdiction in relation to marriage of same sex couples) has...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: Jurisdiction in relation to marriage of same sex couples (21 May 2013)

Jurisdiction in relation to marriage of same sex couples

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill: New Clause 15 — Marriages according to usages of approved organisations (21 May 2013) See 27 other results from this debate

Maria Miller: I will make some progress, because we have another string of amendments to get through. The effect of new clause 18 and amendments 58 and 59 would be to require all marriages not conducted through a religious ceremony to be called civil marriages. The intention seems to be to separate marriage conducted through civil and religious ceremonies into two distinct institutions. Let me be clear...

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill (21 May 2013)

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 16 — Review of civil partnership (20 May 2013) See 31 other results from this debate

Maria Miller: ...for the right reasons, and in the right way. The right hon. Member for St Helens South and Whiston (Mr Woodward) put his finger on it when he said that the gross unfairness is the fact that same-sex couples cannot get married. That is what the House needs to focus on today. By voting for new clause 16 and amendment (a) to it, we can get to a position in which we can deal with the issue of...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: New Clause 3 — Conscientious objection: transitional arrangments (20 May 2013)

‘(1) No person shall be under any duty, whether by contract or by statutory or other legal requirement, to conduct a marriage to which he has a conscientious objection if he is employed as a registrar of marriages on the date this Act comes in force. (2) For the purposes of this section, a “conscientious objection” exists where the refusal to conduct a marriage is only that...

Oral Answers to Questions — Work and Pensions: Clause 2 — Marriage according to religious rites: no compulsion to solemnize etc (20 May 2013)

...— ‘( ) In section 110 of the Equality Act 2010 (liability of employees and agents), after subsection (5) insert— (5A) A does not contravene this section if A— (a) does not conduct a relevant marriage, (b) is not present at, does not carry out, or does not otherwise participate in, a relevant marriage, or (c) does not consent to a relevant marriage being conducted,...