Australian Capital Territory Current Acts

BIRTHS, DEATHS AND MARRIAGES REGISTRATION ACT 1997 - SECT 65

    (1)     A certificate or other instrument that purports to state information obtained by the registrar-general under this Act or the repealed Act is evidence of the matters stated in it if it purports—

        (a)     to be signed and sealed by the registrar-general; or

        (b)     to have attached to it, or be otherwise authenticated by, a facsimile of the registrar-general's signature and seal produced by a stamp, machine imprint or any other method authorised by regulation.

    (2)     An interstate recognition certificate is, for the purposes of any territory law, evidence that the person mentioned in it is of the sex stated in the certificate.

    (3)     An interstate recognised details certificate is, for the purposes of any territory law, evidence that the person mentioned in it is of the sex stated in the certificate.

    (4)     In this section:

"interstate recognition certificate "means a certificate issued under a corresponding law.