Non-Binary and Intersex Recognition Bill 2026

Current Most recent stage: Second Stage

How far it has got

First Stage
Second Stage
Committee Stage
Report Stage
Fifth Stage
Enacted

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What the bill says it does

Bill entitled an Act to provide for the recognition of a non-binary gender and for those born intersex; to amend the Gender Recognition Act 2015 to recognise a non-binary gender; to amend the Interpretation Act 2005 to include a non-binary gender; to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to allow qualified informants to record an X on Registers for Births, Stillbirths, Adoptions, and Death; to amend the Equal Status Act 2000 and the Employment Equality Act 1998 to outlaw discrimination based on sexual characteristics.

This is the bill's official long title.