Adopted Children Register

(1) The Registrar General shall establish and maintain at the General Registry a register to be called the Adopted Children Register, in which shall be made such entries as may be directed to be made therein by adoption orders, but not any other entries. (2) Every adoption order shall contain a direction to the Registrar General to make in the Adopted Children Register an entry recording the adoption in the form set out in the Third Schedule hereto. (3) If upon any application for an adoption order there is proven to the satisfaction of the court, (a) the date of the birth of the child; and (b) that the identity of the child is the same as that of a child to which any entry or entries in the Register of Births relates, the adoption order shall contain a further direction to the Registrar General to cause such birth, entry or entries in the Register of Births, to be marked with the word “Adopted”, and to include in the entry in the adoption the date stated in the order of the adopted child’s birth in the manner indicated in the Third Schedule hereto. (4) The prescribed officer of the court shall cause every adoption order to be communicated in the prescribed manner to the Registrar General, and upon receipt of such communication the Registrar General shall cause compliance to be made with the directions contained in such order in regard both to the marking of an entry in the Register of Births and Deaths with the word “Adopted”, and in regard to marking the appropriate entry in the Adopted Children Register. 81 (5) A certified copy of any entry in the Adopted Children Register, if purporting to be sealed or stamped with the seal of the General Registry shall, without any further or other proof of such entry, (a) where the entry does not contain any record of the date of the birth of the adopted child, be received as evidence of the adoption to which it relates; and (b) where the entry contains a record of the date of the birth of the adopted child, be received not only as evidence of the adoption to which it relates, but also as evidence of the date of the birth of the adopted child to which the entry relates in all respects as though it were a certified copy of an entry in the Register of (6) The Registrar General shall cause an index of the Adopted Children Register to be made and kept in the General Registry and every person shall be entitled to search such index and to have a certified copy of any entry in the Adopted Children Register, in all respects upon, and subject to such terms, conditions and regulations as to payment of fees and otherwise as may be prescribed. (7) The Registrar General shall, in addition to the Adopted Children Register and the index thereof, keep such other registers and books, and make such entries therein as may be necessary to record and make traceable the connection between any entry in the Register of Births which has been marked “Adopted” pursuant to subsection (3) of this section and any corresponding entry in the Adopted Children Register. (8) The registers and books kept under subsection (7) of this section, shall not, nor shall any index thereof be, opened to public inspection or search, nor shall the Registrar General furnish any person with any information contained in or with 82 any copy or extracts from any such registers or books, except under an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.