LGBTIQ Rights+
Homosexual couples married abroad will obtain rights in Hong Kong
The spouses united legally outside this region will obtain certain rights which concern health issues. However, homosexual marriage is not authorized.
The legislation should legally recognize homosexual marriage, but only united persons abroad will be affected (archive photo).
AFP/Philip Fong
Hong Kong will propose a legal framework recognizing certain rights to homosexual couples legally married abroad, in particular during the hospitalization of the spouse, announced the government of this special administrative region Chinese.
“The government recommends having legislation to allow same -sex couples to file a registration request, so that their relationship is legally recognized,” said the government in an official document, adding that only legally married couples abroad will be entitled.
The former British colony does not allow homosexual marriage. In 2023, the highest Hong Kong court held that marriage remained “restricted to heterosexual couples” while giving the government two years to create an “alternative legal framework” to recognize certain rights of homosexual couples.
Hospital visits and rights during the death
The official document, published on Wednesday, limits the extent to health issues, such as hospital visits, medical decisions, sharing medical information and organ donation – and rights when the spouse’s death.
The text does not mention, on the other hand, the questions of housing, inheritance or taxes, subjects already resolved elsewhere at the end of previous legislative battles concerning the rights of LGBTIQ+ persons in Hong Kong.
The Legislative Council of Hong Kong Now has no opposition members have now had since the authorities modified the electoral rules in 2021 so that only faithful in Beijing sit, hostile to recognition of homosexual couples.
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