74.Section 5C of the Gender Recognition Act makes provision about the issuing of full gender recognition certificates to both parties in a civil partnership. Its purpose was to ensure that the legal gender of both partners changed simultaneously so as to avoid creating a different sex civil partnership. When different sex civil partnerships become lawful, section 5C will be redundant and therefore paragraph 5(10) removes it from the statute book.
Commentary on Provisions Repeal of section 5C