KMT and PFP representatives demanded a nationwide sequence of hearings be held over various months on the difficulty, while DPP legislators wished the bills to be reviewed and immediately proceeded with. Following a variety of physical scuffles between the MPs, the committee ultimately agreed to hold two public hearings on the problem over the next two weeks; one listening to chaired by a KMT representative and another hearing chaired by a DPP representative. DPP member Yu Mei-nu expressed assist for the modification as did greater than 20 different DPP lawmakers in addition to two legislators from the Taiwan Solidarity Union and one every from the KMT and the People First Party (PFP). The proposed modification was mostly supported by DPP legislators (whose get together had a majority within the Legislative Yuan) although also by one legislator from the minority KMT, which was divided on the difficulty of same-sex marriage. On 25 October 2016, a few dozen legislators submitted a invoice to legalize identical-intercourse marriage in Taiwan.
On 28 June 2015, a senior official from the Ministry of Justice stated that same-intercourse marriage would remain illegal in Taiwan “for now”. In October 2015, similar-sex couples have been allowed to participate at the Taoyuan City Government’s public mass wedding ceremony for the primary time. On 28 October 2015, the Taichung City Government introduced that very same-intercourse couples would be permitted to take part in the next yr’s mass marriage ceremony ceremony. In early December 2016, tens of hundreds of opponents of same-sex marriage demonstrated in Taipei, Taichung and Kaohsiung. In January 2018, opponents of similar-intercourse marriage filed an enchantment with the Supreme Administrative Court to annul the May 2017 choice. Several thousand opponents and supporters of similar-intercourse marriage protested outdoors the Parliament on the streets of Taipei while the committee was assembly. Two draft amendments to Taiwan’s Civil Code to legalize each same-sex marriage and adoption by identical-sex partners passed their first reading within the Legislative Yuan on 8 November 2016. Both payments have been instantly referred to the Judiciary, Organic Laws and Statutes Committee for discussion. By June 2017, the Executive Yuan had requested that authorities agencies relax restrictions on similar-intercourse couples, to entitle them to rights accorded to married couples, equivalent to signing medical consent kinds, asking for household care go away and visiting imprisoned companions.
In March 2017, the full panel of the Constitutional Court (Judicial Yuan) heard a case brought by gay rights activist Chi Chia-wei (whose try at registering a marriage along with his companion in 2013 was rejected) and the Taipei City Government’s Department of Civil Affairs. Both requested a constitutional interpretation on the difficulty and requested the court docket to deal with whether or not the Civil Code allowed identical-intercourse marriage and if not, whether or not this violated articles of the Constitution of the Republic of China pertaining to equality and the liberty to marry. The enchantment was shortly rejected by the court. In December 2017, the Taipei Administrative Court ruled that very same-sex couples could not marry in Taiwan until laws was handed by the Legislative Yuan or till 24 May 2019 when the Constitutional Court ruling would go into impact. Chairman of the committee, Wang Kao-cheng, said it was rejected for 2 reasons: one, that the proposed was not a legislation, a legislative principle, necessary policy or constitutional amendment and due to this fact didn’t meet the requirements of the Referendum Act (Chinese: 公民投票法); and two, the proposal was about revising several provisions of the Civil Code, which did not meet the legislation’s requirement that a referendum must be about a single situation.
