Australian Capital Territory Numbered Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES (NO. 112 OF 1997) - SECT 28

28. (1) A person shall not, with intention to deceive, produce to another person—

        (a)     a birth certificate;

        (b)     a copy of such a certificate; or

        (c)     an extract from such a certificate;

issued in respect of the birth of a transsexual person that shows his or her sex before the record was altered.

Penalty: 50 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.

(2) It is not a defence to a prosecution for a breach of subsection (1) that the document in respect of which the prosecution is brought refers to the defendant.