Section 13
Amendment of register
of Registration of Adoptions Act 1952
Any Registrar having custody of a register in which an adoption has been registered in accordance with this Act may, on application in the prescribed manner and on payment of the prescribed fee by the person or spouses who applied for such registration or by the child, amend the register by the correction of any error in the particulars contained therein; and where an entry in the register is so amended a certified copy of the amended entry in the register signed by the Registrar shall be delivered or sent to the person or spouses or to the child and a certified copy of the amended entry in the register shall be sent, within such period as may be prescribed, to the Registrar General.
(2)
The Attorney General may apply to a Sessions Court to cancel the registration of any adoption in such manner as may be provided by rules made under the Rules Committee and the court shall send a copy of the order made in every such application to the
Registrar by whom such adoption was registered and to the Registrar
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General and the register shall be amended by cancelling the registration of such adoption if the court so orders.
(3)
Where in any proceedings it appears to a court not below the court of a First Class Magistrate that an adoption registered in accordance with this Act is invalid and the court so orders, a copy of the said order shall be sent to the Registrar by whom such adoption was registered and to the Registrar General and the register shall be amended by cancelling the registration of such adoption.
(4)
Any person, whether or not a party to the proceedings, who is aggrieved by any decision of a court under subsection (2) or (3) may appeal to the High Court or to the Federal Court (as the case may be)
and from the High Court to the Federal Court, in such manner as may be provided by rules made under the Rules Committee.