Section 3 of the Principal Act is amended as follows:

(a) by inserting the following definition after the definition of prohibited name :

recognition certificate means a certificate that –

(a) is issued under a law of another State that recognises that a person who has undergone sexual reassignment surgery may have changed sex; and

(b) is issued in respect of a person who, having undergone sexual reassignment surgery, has changed sex; and

(c) states the sex of that person as so changed;

(b) by inserting the following definition after the definition of regulations :

sexual reassignment surgery means a surgical procedure involving the alteration of a person's reproductive organs carried out –

(a) for the purpose of assisting the person to be considered to be a member of the opposite sex; or

(b) to correct or eliminate ambiguities relating to the sex of the person;