Gender Recognition Act 2004 (c. 7)

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Gender Recognition Act 2004

2004 CHAPTER 7

CONTENTS

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  1. Applications for gender recognition certificate

    1. 1. Applications

    2. 2. Determination of applications

    3. 3. Evidence

    4. 4. Successful applications

    5. 5. Subsequent issue of full certificates

    6. 6. Errors in certificates

    7. 7. Applications: supplementary

    8. 8. Appeals etc.

  2. Consequences of issue of gender recognition certificate etc.

    1. 9. General

    2. 10. Registration

    3. 11. Marriage

    4. 12. Parenthood

    5. 13. Social security benefits and pensions

    6. 14. Discrimination

    7. 15. Succession etc.

    8. 16. Peerages etc.

    9. 17. Trustees and personal representatives

    10. 18. Orders where expectations defeated

    11. 19. Sport

    12. 20. Gender-specific offences

    13. 21. Foreign gender change and marriage

  3. Supplementary

    1. 22. Prohibition on disclosure of information

    2. 23. Power to modify statutory provisions

    3. 24. Orders and regulations

    4. 25. Interpretation

    5. 26. Commencement

    6. 27. Applications within two years of commencement

    7. 28. Extent

    8. 29. Short title

    1. Schedule 1

      Gender Recognition Panels

    2. Schedule 2

      Interim certificates: marriage

      1. Part 1

        England and Wales

      2. Part 2

        Scotland

      3. Part 3

        Northern Ireland

    3. Schedule 3

      Registration

      1. Part 1

        England and Wales

      2. Part 2

        Scotland

      3. Part 3

        Northern Ireland

    4. Schedule 4

      Effect on marriage

      1. Part 1

        England and Wales

      2. Part 2

        Scotland

      3. Part 3

        Northern Ireland

    5. Schedule 5

      Benefits and pensions

      1. Part 1

        Introductory

      2. Part 2

        State benefits

      3. Part 3

        Occupational pension schemes

    6. Schedule 6

      Sex discrimination

      1. Part 1

        Great Britain

      2. Part 2

        Northern Ireland

An Act to make provision for and in connection with change of gender.

[1st July 2004]

Be it enacted by the Queen´s most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:–

Applications for gender recognition certificate

1 Applications

(1) A person of either gender who is aged at least 18 may make an application for a gender recognition certificate on the basis of–

(a) living in the other gender, or

(b) having changed gender under the law of a country or territory outside the United Kingdom.

(2) In this Act "the acquired gender", in relation to a person by whom an application under subsection (1) is or has been made, means–

(a) in the case of an application under paragraph (a) of that subsection, the gender in which the person is living, or

(b) in the case of an application under paragraph (b) of that subsection, the gender to which the person has changed under the law of the country or territory concerned.

(3) An application under subsection (1) is to be determined by a Gender Recognition Panel.

(4) Schedule 1 (Gender Recognition Panels) has effect.

2 Determination of applications

(1) In the case of an application under section 1(1)(a), the Panel must grant the application if satisfied that the applicant–

(a) has or has had gender dysphoria,

(b) has lived in the acquired gender throughout the period of two years ending with the date on which the application is made,

(c) intends to continue to live in the acquired gender until death, and

(d) complies with the requirements imposed by and under section 3.

(2) In…

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