Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 28

    (1)     A person commits an offence if—

        (a)     the person produces a birth certificate to someone else that shows a transsexual person's sex before the record was altered; and

        (b)     the person produces the certificate with intent to deceive.

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

    (2)     It is not a defence to a prosecution for an offence against this section that the document in relation to which the prosecution is brought refers to the defendant.

    (3)     In this section:

"birth certificate" includes—

        (a)     a copy of a birth certificate; and

        (b)     an extract from a birth certificate.