SCHEDULE 1
Article 2
Consequential Amendments to Primary Legislation
Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869
1. In section 6 of the Metropolitan Public Carriage Act 1869( 5) (grant of hackney carriage licences)-
(a) in subsection (9)(a)-
(i) for "widow" in both places it occurs, substitute "surviving spouse or surviving civil partner", and
(ii) omit "and", and
(b) omit subsection (9)(b).
2. In section 4 of the Pensions Commutation Act 1871( 6) (power to Treasury to commute pensions), for subsection (2) substitute-
"(2) Where any officer in the naval or land forces of Her Majesty whose pension has been commuted under this Act subsequently marries or forms a civil partnership, the officer's surviving spouse or surviving civil partner shall not be entitled to any pension, and a child of any such officer born after the date of the commutation of the pension shall not be entitled to compassionate allowance:".
Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act 1916
3. For section 2 of the Local Government (Emergency Provisions) Act 1916( 7) (payments under superannuation schemes) substitute-
"If an officer or servant of a local authority dies whilst serving in or with His Majesty's forces, or in consequence of wounds or disease received or contracted during such service which prevented that person from returning to the service of the local authority, the local authority shall have, and shall be deemed always to have had, power to make to that person's surviving spouse, surviving civil partner or other dependants, such payments as could have been made to them under any superannuation scheme (whether established by statute or otherwise) in force in the district had that person been actually serving the local authority at the time of death.".
Population (Statistics) Act 1938
4. For paragraph 1(d) of the Schedule to the Population (Statistics) Act 1938( 8) (particulars which may be required to be provided to registration officer) substitute-
"(d) where the birth is of a child to whom section 1(3) of that Act applies by reason of any marriage or civil partnership between the child's parents-
(i) the date of the marriage or formation of the civil partnership, and
(ii) whether before she married, or formed the civil partnership with, the child's other parent, the mother had been married to, or had formed a civil partnership with, any other person;".
5. (1) The Marriage Act 1949( 9) is amended as follows.
(2) In section 28( 10) (declaration to accompany notice of marriage), in subsection (1)(c), for "or widow" substitute ", widow or surviving civil partner".
(3) After section 42(3)( 11) (cancellation of registration of building) insert-
"(3A) In a case where-
(a) the registration of a building is cancelled under this section, and
(b) the building is also registered under section 43A,
the Registrar General must also cancel the registration under section 43A.".
(4) In section 49A( 12) (which provides marriages of same sex couples may be void in the absence of the required consent), in subsection (2), after paragraph (b) insert-
"(ba) section 26A(3) and under any regulations made under section 44C that require the consent to use of a building for the solemnization of marriages of same sex couples, in a case where section 26A and section 44C apply to the marriage;".
Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951
6. In the closing words of section 46(3) of the Reserve and Auxiliary Forces (Protection of Civil Interests) Act 1951( 13) (payments to make up civil remuneration), for "his widow" substitute "that person's surviving spouse, surviving civil partner".
Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953
7. In the heading to section 10 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1953( 14) (registration of father or of second female parent where parents neither married nor civil partners), before "civil partners" insert "married or".
Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957
8. In section 5(3) of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Special Provisions) Act 1957( 15) (registration of births of legitimated persons in the service departments registers), in paragraph (b), for "is" substitute "includes".
9. In section 65(5) of the Transport Act 1962( 16) (railway savings banks), for the words "is a man" to the end substitute "is a person who dies leaving a surviving spouse or surviving civil partner, that survivor for so long as that survivor does not subsequently marry, enter into a civil partnership or die.".
10. In section 18(2) of the Harbours Act 1964( 17) (harbour reorganisation schemes), in paragraph (h), after "spouses" in both places it occurs, insert ", civil partners".
Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969
11. (1) Schedule 1 to the Sharing of Church Buildings Act 1969( 18) (modifications of application of Marriage Act 1949 to shared church building to which sharing agreement relates) is amended as follows.
(2) In paragraph 3, after "building" insert "which is registered under section 41 of the Act, and".
(3) After paragraph 3 insert-
"3A. Subject to the provision made by sections 44A to 44C of the Act and any regulations made under those sections, where a sharing Church withdraws from the sharing of a registered church building which is registered under section 43A of the Act, and which continues to be used by another Church other than the Church of England, the registration shall not be cancelled.".
(4) In paragraph 4, after "section 43(1)" insert "or section 43B(1)".
(5) In paragraph 5-
(a) for the words from "The proviso" to "which prescribes" substitute "Sections 43(1A) and 43B(3) of the Act, both of which prescribe",
(b) after "paragraph 3" insert "or 3A", and
(c) for the "said proviso" substitute "section 43(1A) or 43B(3)".
12. In section 16C(4) of the Consumer Credit Act 1974( 19) (exemption relating to investment properties), for paragraph (b) substitute-
"(b) a person whose relationship with that person has the characteristic of the relationship between two people who are married; or".
Social Security Pensions Act 1975
13. In section 59(5ZA)( 20) of the Social Security Pensions Act 1975( 21) (increase of official pensions)-
(a) in the opening...
