Section 25A

to the Registrar General that the word “adopted”,

“adopter” or “adoptive” or any word to like effect shall not appear in the Certificate; and

to the natural or adoptive parent or parents, as the case may be, to surrender to the Registrar General the

Certificate of Birth of the child issued under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957.

Upon receipt of an adoption order, the Registrar General shall, subject to due compliance with paragraph (1)(b) and the payment by the adopter of the prescribed fee, issue a Certificate of Birth in respect of the child in the form set out in the Second Schedule.

Where a certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children

Register had been issued in respect of a child adopted under this Act, the Registrar General shall issue a Certificate of Birth in respect of the child—

Upon receipt of the Certificate of Birth under subsection (3), the adoptive parent or either of the adoptive parents, or in the event of the adoptive parent or both adoptive parents being dead, the adopted child, shall cause the certified copy of an entry in the Adopted

Children Register issued in respect of the adopted child to be surrendered to the Registrar General for cancellation.

The Certificate of Birth issued under this Act pursuant to an adoption order shall replace the Certificate of Birth of the child issued under the Births and Deaths Registration Act 1957, and shall for all purposes be known as the Certificate of Birth of the child.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any written law, the Certificate of Birth under this Act, if given under the hand of the

Registrar General or any person authorized by him, shall be received without further or other proof as evidence of the facts and particulars relating to the birth of the child in respect of whom the Certificate of

Birth was issued.

If the Certificate of Birth issued under this Act is lost, damaged or defaced, the adoptive parent, or in the case of the adoptive parent being dead, the adopted child, may apply to the

Registrar General or any person authorized by him for a copy of the

Certificate of Birth which, when issued, shall be marked with the word “Replacement”.

The Registrar General shall establish and maintain a register to be called the Register of Birth Certificates in which shall be made such entries pertaining to the issuance of a Certificate of Birth under this Act in respect of an adopted child.

Any person may apply in the prescribed form to have a search made of the Register of Birth Certificates upon payment of the prescribed fee and to have the result of the search certified in the prescribed form.

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