Legislation – Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022
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SCHEDULE 1Registration of adoptions
Cancellations in registers on legitimation
6
(1)
This paragraph applies where an adoption order is revoked under section 54(1).
(2)
The prescribed officer of the court must communicate the revocation in the prescribed manner to the Registrar General who must then cancel or secure the cancellation of—
(a)
the entry in the Adopted Children Register relating to the adopted person; and
(b)
the marking with the word “Adopted” of any entry relating to the adopted person in the registers of live-births or other records.
(3)
A copy or extract of an entry in any register or other record, being an entry the marking of which is cancelled under this paragraph, is not to be treated as an accurate copy unless both the marking and the cancellation are omitted from it.
(4)
In this paragraph “prescribed” means prescribed by rules of court.