s.34Adopted Children Register
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Section 34Part 5 — MISCELLANEOUS

Adopted Children Register

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The Registrar appointed under the Births and Deaths Registration Law (2007 Revision) shall continue to maintain at his office a register called the Adopted Children Register, in which shall be made such entries as may be directed to be made pursuant to subsection (2), but no other entries.
Adoption orders shall contain a direction to the Registrar to make in the Adopted Children Register any entry recording the adoption in such form as may be prescribed.
For the purposes of compliance with subsection (2) -
where the precise date of the child's birth is not proved to the satisfaction of the Grand Court, the Grand Court shall determine the probable date of his birth and the date so determined shall be specified in the order as the date of birth;
where the name or surname which the child is to bear after the adoption differs from his original name or surname the new name or surname shall be specified in the order instead of the original name; and
where the country of birth of the child is not proved to the satisfaction of the Grand Court, the particulars of that country may be omitted from the order and from the entry in the Adopted Children Register.
The Grand Court shall cause every adoption order to be communicated to the Registrar, and upon receipt of such communication the Registrar shall cause compliance to be made with the directions contained in such order in regard both to marking an entry in the Register of Births with the word "adopted" and in regard to making the appropriate entry in the Adopted Children Register.
A certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children Register, if purportedly signed by the Registrar, shall, without any further or other proof of such entry where the entry is made in accordance with subsection (4), 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 child to which it relates in all respects as though the same were a certified copy of an entry in the Register of Births.
The Registrar shall cause an index of the Adopted Children Register to be made and kept in his office, and every person who applies in prescribed form shall be entitled to obtain from the Registrar a certificate in prescribed form evidencing the birth of any person, compiled from the Adopted Children Register subject to the same terms, conditions and regulations as to payment of fees and otherwise as are applicable under the Births and Deaths Registration Law (2007 Revision) in respect of the supply from that office of certified copies of entries in the Registers of Births and Deaths.
The Registrar 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 an entry in the Register of Births which has been marked "adopted" pursuant to this Law and any corresponding entry in the Adopted Children Register, but such last-mentioned registers and books shall not be nor shall any index thereof be open to public inspection or search, except under an order of the Grand Court.

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