 By June 2017, the Executive had requested that government agencies relax restrictions on same-sex couples, to entitle them to rights accorded to married couples, such as signing medical consent forms, asking for family care leave and visiting imprisoned partners.The Secretary-General of the Executive, Chen Mei-ling, stated that the Cabinet had not decided on how to legalize same-sex marriages — by amending the Civil Code, by establishing a special section of the Civil Code or by creating a special law.Government inaction over the following months resulted in implementation of the court's ruling being pushed back.