UK - Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Bill

Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill

 (HC Bill 126)

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CONTENTS

Part 1

Marriage of same sex couples in England and Wales

Extension of marriage

1.Extension of marriage to same sex couples


Religious protection

2.Marriage according to religious rites: no compulsion to solemnize etc


Part 3 of the Marriage Act 1949

3.Marriage for which no opt-in necessary
4.Opt-in: marriage in places of worship
5.Opt-in: other religious ceremonies


Part 5 of the Marriage Act 1949

6.Armed forces chapels


The Marriage (Registrar General’s Licence) Act 1970

7.Opt-in: “deathbed marriages”


The Church in Wales

8.Power to allow for marriage of same sex couples in Church in Wales


Other provisions relating to marriages of same sex couples

9.Conversion of civil partnership into marriage
10.Extra-territorial matters


Effect of extension of marriage

11.Effect of extension of marriage

Part 2

Other provisions relating to marriage and civil partnership

12.Change of gender of married persons or civil partners
13.Marriage overseas

Part 3

Final provisions

14.Transitional and consequential provision
15.Orders and regulations
16.Interpretation
17.Extent
18.Short title and commencement

Schedule 1

Registration of buildings etc

Schedule 2

Extra-territorial matters

Part 1  English & Welsh marriages of same sex couples: treatment in
Scotland and Northern Ireland
Part 2  Marriage treated as civil partnership: dissolution, annulment
or separation
Part 3  England and Wales: “overseas relationships” in Civil 

Partnership Act 2004


Schedule 3  Interpretation of legislation


Part 1  Existing England and Wales legislation
Part 2  New England and Wales legislation


Schedule 4  Effect of extension of marriage: further provision


Part 1  Private legal instruments
Part 2  Presumption on birth of child to married woman
Part 3  Divorce and annulment of marriage
Part 4  Matrimonial proceedings
Part 5  State pensions
Part 6  Occupational pensions and survivor benefits
Part 7  General


Schedule 5  Change of gender of married persons or civil partners


Schedule 6  Marriage overseas


Part 1  Consular marriage under UK law
Part 2  Marriage under foreign law: certificates of no impediment
Part 3  Marriage of forces personnel under UK law
Part 4  General provisions


Schedule 7  Transitional and consequential provision etc


Part 1  Transitional and transitory provision
Part 2  Minor and consequential amendments


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