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ADOPTION ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1967 - SECT 25

Registration of adoption orders.

25.(1) The court by which an adoption order has been made may, on the
application of the adopter or of the adopted person, amend the order by the
correction of any error in the particulars contained therein, and may

(a)if satisfied on the application of the adopter or of the adopted person
that within one year beginning with the date of the order any new name or
names has or have been given to the adopted person (whether in baptism or
otherwise), or taken by him, either in lieu of or in addition to a name or
names specified in the particulars required to be entered in the Adopted
Children Register in pursuance of the order, amend the order by substituting
or adding that name or names in those particulars, as the case may require;

(b)if satisfied on the application of any person concerned that a direction
for the marking of an entry in the Register of Births or the Adopted Children
Register included in the order in pursuance of section 24(4) or (5) was
wrongly so included, revoke that direction.

(2) Where an adoption order is amended or a direction revoked under subsection
(1), the prescribed officer of the court shall cause the amendment to be
communicated in the prescribed manner to the Registrar General who shall as
the case may require,

(a)cause the entry in the Adopted Children Register to be amended accordingly;
or

(b)cause the marking of the entry in the Register of Births or the Adopted
Children Register to be cancelled.

(3) Where an adoption order is quashed or an appeal against an adoption order
is allowed by any court the court shall give direction to the Registrar
General to cancel any entry in the Adopted Children Register and any marking
of an entry in that Register or the Register of Births which was effected in
pursuance of the order.

(4) Where an adoption order has been amended, any certified copy of the
relevant entry in the Adopted Children Register which may be issued pursuant
to section 23(2) shall be a copy of the entry as amended, without the
reproduction of any note or marking relating to the amendment or of any matter
cancelled pursuant thereto; and a copy or extract of an entry in any register,
being an entry the marking of which has been cancelled, shall be deemed to be
an accurate copy if and only if both the marking and the cancellation are
ommited therefrom.

(5) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 3 of the Legitimacy Act
(Northern Ireland) 1961 (which provides for applications for the revocation of
adoption orders and the cancellation of entries relating to that order in any
registers upon the legitimation of any person) where, after an entry in the
Register of Births has been marked with the word "Adopted", the birth is
re-registered under section 30 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act
(Northern Ireland) 1967 (which provides for the re-registration of the birth
of legitimated persons) the entry made on the re-registration shall be marked
in the like manner.

(6) Where the Registrar General has, in accordance with section 24(7), caused
a notification of any particulars to be transmitted to any authority
maintaining a Register of Births or an Adopted Children Register or any
corresponding register of adoptions in England and Wales, Scotland, the Isle
of Man or any of the Channel Islands, and any of those particulars are
amended, revoked or cancelled under this section, the Registrar General shall
cause a notification of such amendment, revocation or cancellation to be
transmitted to that authority.

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