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Crimes Act 1900
77Exception—sexual reassignment procedures
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77 Exception—sexual reassignment procedures
(1) It is not an offence against this part to perform a sexual reassignment
procedure or to take, or arrange for a person to be taken, from the
ACT with the intention of having a sexual reassignment procedure
performed on the person.
sexual reassignment procedure means a surgical procedure
performed by a medical practitioner to give a female person, or a
person whose sex is ambivalent, the genital appearance of a person of
the opposite sex or of a particular sex (whether male or female).