Canada: Prince Edward Island Changes Laws to Reflect Gay Marriage Legality

Same-sex couples have been able to get married in Prince Edward Island since June 2006, but the CBC reports that it was only this weekend that the province's laws were changed to fully reflect that. The Domestic Relations Act was proclaimed over the weekend, after receiving royal assent earlier this year. The act changes 29 pieces of provincial legislation to replace references to "man and woman" and "husband and wife" with gender-neutral terms. The CBC reports: Now that the legislation has been proclaimed, the government can get on with processing a backlog of requests, said Jessie Frost-Wicks, a departmental solicitor with the Office the Attorney General... Full Story from Xtra.ca: http://www.xtra.ca/blog/national/post/2009/12/21/Days-before-2010-PEI-proclaims-gay-marriage-amendments.aspx

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