Part 3 Northern Ireland

Part 3 Northern Ireland

Introductory

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In this Part—

“the Registrar General†means the Registrar General for Northern Ireland, and

“the 1976 Order†means the Births and Deaths Registration (Northern Ireland) Order 1976 (SI 1976/1041 (NI 14)).

Gender Recognition Register

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(1)     The Registrar General must maintain, in the General Register Office in Northern Ireland, a register to be called the Gender Recognition Register.

(2)     In this Part “the Gender Recognition Register†means the register maintained under sub-paragraph (1).

(3)     The form in which the Gender Recognition Register is maintained is to be determined by the Registrar General.

(4)ÌýÌýÌýÌý The [Subject to sub-paragraph (5), the] Gender Recognition Register is not to be open to public inspection or search.

[(5)     The Department of Finance and Personnel may by regulations make provision for any person to have access, on payment of the prescribed fee, to any information contained in the Gender Recognition Register.

(6)     Regulations under sub-paragraph (5) may provide that the relevant period must have expired in relation to the information.

(7)     In sub-paragraph (6) “the relevant period†in relation to information relating to a person means the period of 100 years from the

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