Gender Recognition Act 2015
Number 25 of 2015
GENDER RECOGNITION ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2019
This Revised Act is an administrative consolidation of the Gender Recognition Act 2015. It is prepared by the Law Reform Commission in accordance with its function under the Law Reform Commission Act 1975 (3/1975) to keep the law under review and to undertake revision and consolidation of statute law.
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Number 25 of 2015
GENDER RECOGNITION ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2019
Introduction
This Revised Act presents the text of the Act as it has been amended since enactment, and preserves the format in which it was passed.
Related legislation
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Annotations
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Acts which affect or previously affected this revision
• Marriage Act 2015 (35/2015)
All Acts up to and including Central Bank (National Claims Information Database) Act 2018 (42/2018), enacted 27 December 2018, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Statutory instruments which affect or previously affected this revision
• Gender Recognition (Forms of Application) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 373 of 2015)
• Gender Recognition Act 2015 (Commencement) Order 2015 (S.I. No. 369 of 2015)
All statutory instruments up to and including Criminal Justice (Suspended Sentences of Imprisonment) Act 2017 (Commencement) Order 2019 (S.I. No. 1 of 2018), made 3 January 2019, were considered in the preparation of this revision.
Number 25 of 2015
GENDER RECOGNITION ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2019
CONTENTS
Preliminary and General
Section
1. Short title and commencement
Applications and Appeals Relating to Gender Recognition
8. Application for a gender recognition certificate
9. Persons who may apply for a gender recognition certificate
10. Requirements on application for a gender recognition certificate
11. Requirements on application where recognition in another jurisdiction
12. Application to court for exemption
13. Gender recognition certificate
15. Application to Minister to revoke a gender recognition certificate
16. Error in a gender recognition certificate
Gender Recognition Certificate
18. Effect of gender recognition certificate generally
20. Disposal or devolution of property
21. Personal representatives and trustees
22. Orders where expectations defeated
Civil Registration
24. Amendment of section 2 of Act of 2004
25. Amendment of section 8 of Act of 2004
26. Amendment of section 13 of Act of 2004
27. Part 3A of the Civil Registration Act 2004
28. Amendment of section 61 of Act of 2004
29. Amendment of section 63 of Act of 2004
30. Amendment of First Schedule to Act of 2004
31. Amendment of section 27 of Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956
32. Amendment of section 3 of Act of 2010
33. Amendment of Chapter 2 of Part 10 of Act of 2010
34. Regulations relating to register of gender recognition of intercountry adoptions
35. Amendment of section 96 of Act of 2010
Miscellaneous Provisions
Acts Referred to
Adoption Act 2010 (No. 21)
Civil Partnership and Certain Rights and Obligations of Cohabitants Act 2010 (No. 24)
Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3)
Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (No. 7)
Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956 (No. 26)
Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25)
Passports Act 2008 (No. 4)
Sex Offenders Act 2001 (No. 18)
Number 25 of 2015
GENDER RECOGNITION ACT 2015
REVISED
Updated to 1 January 2019
An Act to recognise change of gender; to provide for gender recognition certificates; to amend the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, the Civil Registration Act 2004, the Passports Act 2008 and the Adoption Act 2010; and to provide for matters connected therewith.
[22 nd July, 2015]
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: