(c) a person’s parentage is
changed by a parentage order; or
(d) a person’s parentage is changed by a
cultural recognition order and registered under this Act.
(2) The registrar
must re-register a person’s relevant event when the reassignment of the
person’s sex is noted under this Act.
(3) The registrar may re-register a
person’s relevant event if—
(a) the registrar decides that, because of the
number of notes on the entry, it would be desirable to re-register the
relevant event; or
(b) the registrar receives an application, in the approved
form, to re-register the person’s relevant event after a change of the
person’s name has been noted under this Act.
(4) An application to
re-register a person’s relevant event may only be made by—
(a) if the
person is an adult—the person; or
(b) if the person is a minor—a parent
or guardian of the person.
(5) The registrar re-registers a person’s
relevant event by—
(a) duplicating the information in the entry for the
person’s relevant event (the
"closed entry" ) in a new entry in the relevant child register, other than
information that has been superseded, and without indicating what information
has been superseded; and
Example—
If the registrar is re-registering a
birth consequent on the change of a person’s surname from Smith to Jones,
the information in the new entry would be the same as in the old entry except
that the person’s surname would appear as Jones.
(6) A certificate issued by the registrar from the new entry—
(a) if the person’s sex has been reassigned under this Act—
(i) must show
the person’s reassigned sex; and
(ii) must not include a statement or other
clear indication to the effect that a reassignment of the person’s sex has
been noted in the register; or
(b) if the person’s name has been changed
under this Act—must not show the person’s name that was in the
closed entry before a change of name was noted in the closed entry.
(7) The
registrar may issue a certificate from the closed entry.
(8) However, if the
closed entry relates to a person whose sex has been reassigned, the registrar
may issue a certificate to only the following persons—
(a) the person;
(b)
a child of the person;
(c) a parent of the person, if the person is a child;
(d) a person prescribed under a regulation.
(9) Subsection (8) is subject to
the Adoption Act 2009, section 290 .
(10) In this section—
"relevant event" , for a person, means the most recent of the following events
for the person—
(a) birth;
(b) adoption;
(c) change of parentage under a
parentage order;
(d) change of parentage under a cultural recognition order.
