Australian Capital Territory Current Acts Australian Capital Territory Current Acts(1) A person must not impersonate someone else in undergoing a medical test under a parentage testing order.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(2) A person commits an offence if the person—
(a) puts forward a child or someone who is of unsound mind to undergo a medical test under a parentage testing order; and
(b) knows that the person put forward is not the person stated in the order.
Maximum penalty: 50 penalty units, imprisonment for 6 months or both.
(3) A person who is not a doctor, a nurse or a person prescribed under the regulations must not take a sample of a person's blood or other body tissue for the purpose of carrying out a medical test under a parentage testing order.
Maximum penalty:
30 penalty units.