Michael McCarthy (Labour)

I move amendment No. 51:

In page 63, Part 1, line 16, to delete "surname of mother's mother" and substitute "surname(s) of mother's parents".

The Bill introduces further gender discrimination in the particulars required to be registered on a birth certificate. For the first time, the birth certificate will record the surname of the mother's mother, but not the surname of her father. In a minority of cases, the surname of the father would be different but this information will go unrecorded.