Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 50

A person commits an offence if the person—

        (a)     does any of the following:

              (i)     obtains access to the register, records maintained under section 47 or information contained in the register or those records;

              (ii)     makes, alters or deletes an entry in the register or those records;

              (iii)     interferes with the register or those records in any other way; and

        (b)     does so without the registrar-general's authority.

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