Gender Recognition Bill [HL]

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 6:15 pm on 29 January 2004.

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Photo of Baroness O'Cathain Baroness O'Cathain Conservative 6:15, 29 January 2004

moved Amendment No. 85:

Page 26, line 3, leave out paragraph 3 and insert—

"After section 4 insert—

"4A MARRIAGES INVOLVING PERSON OF ACQUIRED GENDER

(1) No person shall be under any duty whether by contract or by any statutory or other legal requirement to solemnise the marriage of a person—

(a) whose gender has become the acquired gender under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, or

(b) who will not consent to the disclosure of any entry relating to him contained in the Gender Recognition Register.

(2) No clerk in Holy Orders of the Church in Wales shall be under any duty whether by contract or by any statutory or other legal requirement to permit the marriage of such a person to be solemnised in the church or chapel of which the clerk is the minister.""