Statutory Instruments
2005 No. 874
GENDER RECOGNITION
The Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories) Order 2005
Made
21st March 2005
Coming into force
4th April 2005
Whereas a draft of this Order has been approved by resolution of each House of Parliament;
Now, therefore, the Secretary of State, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(4) of the Gender Recognition Act 2004( 1 ), and having consulted the Scottish Ministers and the Department of Finance and Personnel in Northern Ireland, hereby makes the following Order:
Citation and commencement
1. This Order may be cited as The Gender Recognition (Approved Countries and Territories) Order 2005 and shall come into force on 4th April 2005.
Approved countries and territories
2. The countries and territories set out in the Schedule are each prescribed as an “approved country or territory” for the purposes of the Gender Recognition Act 2004.
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State
Cathy Ashton
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
Department for Constitutional Affairs
21st March 2005
Article 2
SCHEDULE APPROVED COUNTRIES AND TERRITORIES
The Australian territories of Australian Capital Territory and Northern Territory and the states of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia,
Austria,
Belgium,
Bulgaria,
the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Quebec and Saskatchewan and the Yukon Territory,
Republic of Cyprus,
Denmark,
Estonia,
Finland,
France,
Germany,
Greece,
Iceland,
Italy,
Japan,
Latvia,
Luxembourg,
Malta,
Moldova,
Netherlands,
New Zealand
Norway,
Poland,
Romania,
Russian Federation,
Serbia and Montenegro,
Slovakia,
Slovenia,
South Africa,
Spain,
Sweden,
Switzerland,
Turkey,
Ukraine,
the District of Columbia and all of the states of the United States of America except for Idaho, Ohio, Tennessee and Texas.