Application to register change of sex or gender
28B Application to register change of sex or gender
(1) An adult may apply to the Registrar, in a form approved by the Registrar, to register a change of the adult's sex or gender if:
the adult's birth is entered in the Register; and
(b) the adult believes the adult's sex or gender to be the sex or gender specified in the application; and
the adult:
(i) has received appropriate clinical treatment in relation to the adult's sex or gender; or
is an intersex person.
(2) The parents of a child may apply to the Registrar, in a form approved by the Registrar, to register a change of the child's sex or gender if:
the child's birth is entered in the Register; and
(b) the applicants believe on reasonable grounds that alteration of the record of the child's sex or gender to the sex or gender specified in the application is in the best interest of the child; and
the child:
(i) has received appropriate clinical treatment in relation to the child's sex or gender; or
is an intersex person.
(3) An application for registration of a change of a child's sex or gender may be made by one parent if:
(a) the applicant is the sole parent named in the registration of the child's birth; or
the applicant is the only surviving parent of the child.
(4) If the parents of a child are dead, cannot be found, or for some other reason cannot exercise their parental responsibilities to a child, the child's guardian may apply for registration of a change of the child's sex or gender.
(5) The sex or gender specified in an application under this section must be of a kind recognised in the Regulations.
This provision refers to the regulations (the Regulations
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