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)  [*\[Section 16 Subsection (3) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019\]*](/view/html/inforce/2019-09-05/act-2019-007#GS16@EN) The Registrar, in registering the birth of a person, is to register the sex of the person as being either male or female. > > > (4)  [*\[Section 16 Subsection (4) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019\]*](/view/html/inforce/2019-09-05/act-2019-007#GS16@EN) 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)  [*\[Section 16 Subsection (5) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019\]*](/view/html/inforce/2019-09-05/act-2019-007#GS16@EN) The Registrar may only register the sex of a person under [subsection (3)](#GS16@Gs3@EN) or [(4)](#GS16@Gs4@EN) and must not register the sex of a person as any sex other than male or female. > > > (6)  [*\[Section 16 Subsection (6) inserted by No. 7 of 2019, s. 16, Applied:05 Sep 2019\]*](/view/html/inforce/2019-09-05/act-2019-007#GS16@EN) Nothing in [subsection (3)](#GS16@Gs3@EN) , [(4)](#GS16@Gs4@EN) or [(5)](#GS16@Gs5@EN) is to be taken – > > > > > > (a) to prevent a gender being registered under [section 28C(1)](#GS28C@Gs1@EN) in relation to a person; or > > > > > > > (b) to prevent a registered sex in relation to a person ceasing, in accordance with [section 28C(7)](#GS28C@Gs7@EN) , 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.