
1 
This Order may be cited as the Gender Recognition (Marriage and Civil Partnership Registration) (Modification) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2022 and comes into force on 23 September 2022.
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(1) The Gender Recognition (Marriage and Civil Partnership Registration) (Modification) (Scotland) Order 2016 is amended as follows.
(2) In article 4(7) (modification of the operation of section 98 of the Civil Partnership Act 2004), after “this article” insert “and article 5”.
(3) After article 4, insert—“
5. 

(1) The operation of section 41A(1) of the 1965 Act (admissibility of registration information as evidence) in relation to qualifying Scottish civil partnerships registered under regulation 10 of the 2016 Regulations is modified as follows.
(2) Where the extract issued is an extract of a new civil partnership register entry, it shall be sufficient evidence of the date the civil partnership recorded in that entry was registered only where that date is the same as it is on the corresponding existing civil partnership register entry.”.
CHRISTINA McKELVIE
Authorised to sign by the Scottish Ministers
St Andrew’s House,
Edinburgh
7th June 2022