UK Act of Parliament 2004 c. 7 United Kingdom

Gender Recognition Act 2004

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Status
In Force
Penalty ceiling
Prosecution 1 of 31 obligations carry an unlimited fine. 30 have no criminal penalty — flagged in the list below.

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s.002 Determination of applications (opens in a new tab) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Gender Recognition Panel must grant or reject gender recognition applicationsTribunal / Court
s.003 Alternative grounds for granting applications Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Panel must grant or reject gender recognition applications on alternative groundsTribunal / Court
s.003 Evidence for granting applications on alternative grounds Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Gender Recognition Panel must notify spouse/civil partner of applicationTribunal / Court
s.003 Alternative grounds for granting applications: Scotland Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Gender Recognition Panel must grant or reject Scottish alternative applicationsTribunal / Court
s.003 Evidence for granting applications on alternative grounds: Scotland Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Notify spouse/civil partner; give reasons for information requestsTribunal / Court
s.003 Alternative grounds for granting applications: Scotland (English and Welsh and Northern Ireland residents) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Panel must grant or reject Scottish-ground gender recognition applicationsTribunal / Court
s.004 Successful applications (opens in a new tab) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Gender Recognition Panel must issue certificates and notify spouses/civil partnersTribunal / Court
s.004 Married person or civil partner with interim certificate: issue of full certificate Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Gender Recognition Panel must issue full certificate and notify spouseTribunal / Court
s.004 Married person or civil partner with interim certificate: issue of full certificate (Scotland) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Gender Recognition Panel must decide full certificate applications for Scottish marriages/civil partnershipsTribunal / Court
s.004 Married person or civil partner with interim certificate: issue of full certificate on application to the sheriff (Scotland) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Sheriff must issue full gender recognition certificate and notify spouseTribunal / Court
s.005 Issue of full certificates where applicant has been married (opens in a new tab) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Court must issue full gender recognition certificate on nullity or divorceTribunal / Court
s.005 Issue of full certificates where applicant has been a civil partner Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Court and Gender Recognition Panel must issue full certificatesTribunal / Court
s.006 Errors (opens in a new tab) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Court or Gender Recognition Panel must decide certificate correction applicationsTribunal / Court
s.010 Registration (opens in a new tab) Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Secretary of State must send gender recognition certificates to relevant Registrar GeneralCrown / Minister / Government department
s.022 Prohibition on disclosure of information (opens in a new tab) Prosecution
  • Disclose protected gender recognition informationAny Person

Unlimited fine

34 other provisions — procedural and definitional
s.001 Applications (opens in a new tab)
s.003 Evidence (opens in a new tab)
s.003 Evidence for granting applications on alternative grounds: Scotland (English and Welsh and Northern Ireland residents)
s.004 Application under section 4A: death of spouse or civil partner
s.004 Application under section 4C: death of spouse or civil partner
s.004 Death of civil partner or spouse: issue of full certificate (Scotland)
s.005 Applications by both civil partners
s.005 Protected Scottish civil partnership: applications by both civil partners
s.005 Protected Scottish civil partnership: power to make further provision for issue of full certificate
s.007 Applications: supplementary (opens in a new tab)
s.008 Appeals etc. (opens in a new tab)
s.009 General (opens in a new tab)
s.011 Marriage (opens in a new tab)
s.011 Change in gender of party to marriage
s.011 Change in gender of civil partner
s.011 Continuity of marriage: Scotland
s.011 Continuity of civil partnership: Scotland
s.012 Parenthood (opens in a new tab)
s.013 Social security benefits and pensions (opens in a new tab)
s.014 Discrimination (opens in a new tab)
s.015 Succession etc. (opens in a new tab)
s.016 Peerages etc. (opens in a new tab)
s.017 Trustees and personal representatives (opens in a new tab)
s.018 Orders where expectations defeated (opens in a new tab)
s.019 Sport (opens in a new tab)
s.020 Gender-specific offences (opens in a new tab)
s.021 Foreign gender change and marriage (opens in a new tab)
s.023 Power to modify statutory provisions (opens in a new tab)
s.024 Orders and regulations (opens in a new tab)
s.025 Interpretation (opens in a new tab)
s.026 Commencement (opens in a new tab)
s.027 Applications within two years of commencement (opens in a new tab)
s.028 Extent (opens in a new tab)
s.029 Short title (opens in a new tab)
Schedules

Schedules

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s.sch001 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (1A), the Lord Chancellor must, after... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Lord Chancellor must appoint Gender Recognition Panel President and DeputyCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch001 (1) The President must make arrangements for determining the membership... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • President must arrange panels to include legal and medical membersTribunal / Court
s.sch001 (1) Where a Panel consists of more than one member,... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Panel must determine gender recognition applications in private and give reasonsTribunal / Court
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General must maintain, in the General Register... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must maintain the Gender Recognition RegisterCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) If the Registrar General receives under section 10(1) a... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must record gender recognition certificatesCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General must make arrangements for each entry... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Maintain Gender Recognition Register index and provide searches without extra feeCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) This paragraph applies if, after an entry has been... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Court must notify Registrar General when overturning gender recognition grantTribunal / Court
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General must maintain, in the General Register... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must maintain the Gender Recognition Register and keep it privateCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General must maintain, in the General Register... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must maintain the Gender Recognition RegisterCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) If the Registrar General receives under section 10(1) a... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must update Gender Recognition Register and UK birth entryCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General must make arrangements for each entry... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must add Gender Recognition Register entries to the relevant indexCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) This paragraph applies if, after an entry has been... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must cancel entry when gender recognition decision quashedCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) If the Registrar General receives under section 10(1) a... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must update gender records and birth register entryCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General must make arrangements for each entry... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must include Gender Recognition Register entries in relevant indexCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 Where a short certificate of birth under section 33 of... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must not disclose Gender Recognition Register on certificatesCrown / Minister / Government department
s.sch003 (1) This paragraph applies if, after an entry has been... Regulated
Other duties (1) — Crown / regulator
  • Registrar General must cancel gender recognition entries on court orderCrown / Minister / Government department
82 other schedules
s.sch001 (1) Subject to sub-paragraph (1A), the Lord Chancellor must, after...
s.sch001 In Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the House of...
s.sch001 In Part 3 of Schedule 1 to the Northern Ireland...
s.sch001 Persons on the list— (a) hold and vacate their appointments...
s.sch001 The arrangements must ensure that a Panel determining an application...
s.sch001 The Secretary of State may make staff and other facilities...
s.sch001 (1) The Secretary of State may pay sums by way...
s.sch001 Schedule 1 para.8A
s.sch001 In Schedule 1 to the Tribunals and Inquiries Act 1992...
s.sch002 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 (c. 18) is amended as...
s.sch002 In Article 16 (bars to relief), after paragraph (2) insert—...
s.sch002 (1) Paragraph 18 of Schedule 3 (grounds on which a...
s.sch002 In section 12 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
s.sch002 In section 13 (bars to relief), after subsection (2) insert—...
s.sch002 (1) Paragraph 11 of Schedule 1 (grounds on which a...
s.sch002 The Divorce (Scotland) Act 1976 (c. 39) is amended as...
s.sch002 (1) In subsection (1) of section 1 (grounds on which...
s.sch002 In section 2(1) (encouragement of reconciliation), for “in an action...
s.sch002 The Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 (S.I. 1978/1045 (N.I....
s.sch002 In Article 14 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
s.sch003 In this Part— “the Registrar General” means the Registrar General...
s.sch003 (1) Section 34(5) of the 1953 Act (certified copy of...
s.sch003 England and Wales
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General may make regulations about—
s.sch003 In this Part— “the Registrar General” means the Registrar General...
s.sch003 (1) This paragraph applies in respect of an extract issued...
s.sch003 Where an abbreviated extract of birth under section 39E of...
s.sch003 Section 18A(2) (decrees of parentage and non-parentage), section 20(1)(re-registration in...
s.sch003 sections 41 and 41A of the 1965 Act (authentication of...
s.sch003 (1) The Registrar General may, with the approval of the...
s.sch003 In this Part— “the Registrar General” means the Registrar General...
s.sch003 (1) Anyone who may have a certified copy of the...
s.sch003 Where a short certificate of birth under Article 40 of...
s.sch003 Articles 18, 19 and 19A of the 1976 Order (re-registration...
s.sch003 (1) Any power or duty of the Registrar General to...
s.sch003 Paragraphs (4) to (6) of Article 37 of the 1976...
s.sch003 (1) Article 42 of the 1976 Order (proof of age...
s.sch003 Article 47 of the 1976 Order (fees for searches, certificates...
s.sch003 (1) The Department of Finance in Northern Ireland may by...
s.sch003 (1) Anyone who may have a certified copy of the...
s.sch003 (1) Section 10A of the 1953 Act (re-registration where parents...
s.sch003 (1) Any power or duty of the Registrar General or...
s.sch004 The Marriage Act 1949 is amended as follows.
s.sch004 In Article 14 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
s.sch004 In Article 16(2), (3) and (4) (bars to relief), for...
s.sch004 In section 1 (restrictions on marriage), insert at the end—...
s.sch004 After section 5A insert— Marriages involving person of acquired gender...
s.sch004 The Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 is amended as follows.
s.sch004 In section 12 (grounds on which a marriage celebrated after...
s.sch004 In section 13(2), (3) and (4) (bars to relief), for...
s.sch004 In section 2 of the Marriage (Scotland) Act 1977 (marriage...
s.sch004 In Article 18 of the Family Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) (Northern...
s.sch004 The Matrimonial Causes (Northern Ireland) Order 1978 is amended as...
s.sch005 This Schedule applies where a full gender recognition certificate is...
s.sch005 (1) The person’s entitlement to— (za) a state pension under...
s.sch005 Schedule 5 para.11
s.sch005 (1) The provision that may be made by regulations under...
s.sch005 (1) The provision that may be made by regulations under...
s.sch005 (1) In this paragraph “the 1993 Act” means the Pension...
s.sch005 (1) In this paragraph “the 1993 Act” means the Pension...
s.sch005 (1) The provision that may be made by regulations under...
s.sch005 (1) The provision that may be made by regulations under...
s.sch005 (1) In this Part of this Schedule “the 1992 Act”...
s.sch005 (1) If (immediately before the certificate is issued) the person...
s.sch005 If (immediately before the certificate is issued) the person is...
s.sch005 If (immediately before the certificate is issued) the person is,...
s.sch005 If (immediately before the certificate is issued) the person is...
s.sch005 (1) Any question— (a) whether the person is entitled to...
s.sch005 (1) Any question— (a) whether the person is entitled to...
s.sch005 (1) Any question— (a) whether the person is entitled to...
s.sch005 (1) Any question whether the person is entitled to—
s.sch005 (1) Any question— (a) whether the person is entitled to...
s.sch006 Great Britain
s.sch006 In Article 14 (partnerships), after paragraph (3C) insert—
s.sch006 Great Britain
s.sch006 Great Britain
s.sch006 Great Britain
s.sch006 Great Britain
s.sch006 The Sex Discrimination (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (S.I. 1976/1042 (N.I....
s.sch006 In Article 10A (gender reassignment: exception for genuine occupational qualification),...
s.sch006 In Article 10B (supplementary exceptions relating to gender reassignment), for...
s.sch006 In Article 12 (discrimination against contract workers), after paragraph (3C)...

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