A Bill to make provision for husbands and civil partners of those receiving honours to be allowed to use equivalent honorary titles to those available to women; and for connected purposes.
House of Commons
26 April 2013
This bill would allow husbands and civil partners of honours recipients to use honorary titles equivalent to those available to women. It aims to remove a gender-based difference in how partners can publicly bear titles linked to honours, and its provisions would apply to both marriages and civil partnerships.
The bill is currently at the second reading in the House of Commons. If it progresses, it would move to committee stage, then further readings, before potential passage to the Lords and royal assent.
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