31. Section 27 of the Irish Nationality and Citizenship Act 1956, is amended—

(a) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (3):

“(3A) A register for the purpose of the registration of gender recognition of foreign births shall be kept in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, and on receipt of an application in that behalf by a person referred to in subparagraph (iii) of section 9(1)(a) of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 to whom a gender recognition certificate is issued, particulars of the person’s gender recognition shall be entered in that register.”,

(b) in subsection (4) by the insertion of “or, where applicable, an entry in the register referred to in subsection (3A)” after “foreign births register”,

(c) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (5):

“(5A) Regulations may also be made under subsection (5) for the purposes of the register referred to in subsection (3A) respecting the form and manner of keeping of the register, the registration of gender recognition therein, the persons to whom extracts there from may be furnished, the amendment or deletion of incorrect entries therein, the amendment or deletion of an entry in the register to correspond with an amendment or deletion of an incorrect entry in the foreign births register, the amendment or deletion of an entry where the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade is notified under the Gender Recognition Act 2015 that a gender recognition certificate is amended or revoked, making a traceable connection between the foreign births register and the register referred to in subsection (3A), confidentiality attaching to such traceable connection and to the register referred to in subsection (3A) and (with the consent of the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform) the fees (if any) to be charged for registration of gender recognition in the register and for furnishing extracts thereof.”,

and

(d) by the insertion of the following subsection after subsection (6):

“(7) In this section ‘gender recognition certificate’ has the same meaning as it has in the Gender Recognition Act 2015;”.