16Registration

16 Registration

(1)  The Registrar registers a birth by making an entry about the birth in the Register.

(2)  However, if the particulars available to the Registrar are incomplete, the Registrar may register a birth on the basis of those incomplete particulars.

(3)  [Section 16 Subsection (3) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019] The Registrar, in registering the birth of a person, is to register the sex of the person as being either male or female.

(4)  [Section 16 Subsection (4) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019] The Registrar may not change from male to female, or from female to male, the registered sex in relation to a person, except if it is necessary to correct an error made before or at the time the person's sex was first registered in relation to the person.

(5)  [Section 16 Subsection (5) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019] The Registrar may only register the sex of a person under subsection (3) or (4) and must not register the sex of a person as any sex other than male or female.

(6)  [Section 16 Subsection (6) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019] Nothing in subsection (3) , (4) or (5) is to be taken –

(a) to prevent a gender being registered under section 28C(1) in relation to a person; or

(b) to prevent a registered sex in relation to a person ceasing, in accordance with section 28C(7) , to be the registered sex in relation to the person; or

(c) to invalidate the registration of a previous registered sex that occurred before the gender amendments day.