Record-keeping of such unions alone insufficient to verify whether applications meet criteria stipulated by the bill, official says
Hong Kong authorities have defended the need to set up an official registration system for same-sex partnerships, saying that record-keeping alone is insufficient to allow the government to verify marriages overseas.
The bill, so far opposed by at least 41 members of the 89-strong Legislative Council, went through its first clause-by-clause examination by the bills committee on Friday morning, when the government rebutted lawmaker Erik Yim Kong’s suggestion to set up a record-keeping system instead.
Yim said that a record-keeping arrangement would help minimise the “social impact” and expenditures, and that the government’s plan to set up a registration office and a registrar might “perceptually bring same-sex partnerships to the same level as marriage”.
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