Legislation – Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
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SCHEDULE 1Registration of adoptions
Registration of adoptions in Great Britain, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands
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(1)
Sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) apply where the Registrar General is notified by the authority maintaining a register of adoptions in a part of Great Britain or in the Isle of Man or the Channel Islands that an order has been made authorising the adoption of a child.
(2)
If an entry in the registers of live-births or other records (and no entry in the Adopted Children Register) relates to the child, the Registrar General must secure that the entry is marked with—
(a)
the word “Adopted”, followed by
(b)
the name, in brackets, of the jurisdiction in which the order was made.
(3)
If an entry in the Adopted Children Register relates to the child, the Registrar General must mark the entry with—
(a)
the word “Re-adopted”, followed by
(b)
the name, in brackets, of the jurisdiction in which the order was made.
(4)
Where, after an entry in either of the registers or other records mentioned in sub-paragraphs (2) and (3) has been so marked, the Registrar General is notified by the authority concerned that—
(a)
the order has been quashed;
(b)
an appeal against the order has been allowed; or
(c)
the order has been revoked,
the Registrar General must secure that the marking is cancelled.
(5)
A copy or extract of an entry in any register or other record, being an entry the marking of which is cancelled under sub-paragraph (4), is not to be treated as an accurate copy unless both the marking and the cancellation are omitted from it.