Adopted Children Register.
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nolice at the time of the conveyance or distribution; but nothing in this subsection shall prejudice the right of any such person to follow the property, or any property representing it, into the hands of any person, other than a purchaser, who may have received it.
(3) Where an adoption order is made in respect of a person who has been previously adopted, the previous adoption shall be disregarded for the purposes of section 14 in relation to the devolution of any property on the death of a person dying intestate after the date of the subsequent adoption order and in relation to any disposition of property made after that date.
Registration of adoption orders.
16. (1) The Registrar sball maintain at the general register office a register, to be called the Adopted Children Register, în which shall be made such entries as may be directed to be made therein by adoption orders, but no other entries.
(2) A certified copy of any entry in the Adopted Children Register, if purporting to be sealed or stamped with the seal of the general register office, shall, without any further or other proof of that entry, be received as evidence of the adoption to which it relates and, where the entry contains a record of the date of the birth or the country of the birth of the adopted person, shall also be received as aforesaid as evidence of that date or country in all respects as if the copy were a certified copy of an entry in the registers of births.
(3) The Registrar shall cause an index of the Adopted Children Register to be made and kept in the general register office; and every person shall be entitled to require a search to be made of that index and to have a certified copy of any entry in the Adopted Children Register in all respects upon and subject to the same terms, conditions and regulations as to payment of (Cap. 174) fees and otherwise as are applicable under the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, in respect of searches in other indexes kept in the general register office and in respect of the supply from that office of certified copies of entries in the registers of births.
(4) 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
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record and make traceable the connexion between any entry in the registers of births which has been marked "Adopted" pur- suant to section 17 and any corresponding entry in the Adopted Children Register; but the registers and books kept under this subsection shall not be, nor shall any index therent be, open to public inspection or search, nor, except under an order of the Court, shall the Registrar furnish any person with any informa- tion contained in or with any copy or extract from any such registers or books.
(3) Regulations made by the Governor in Council under the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance may make provision (Cap. 174) as to the duties to be performed by deputy registrars and assistant registrars appointed for the purposes of that Ordinance in the execution of this section and of section 17.
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17. (c) Every adoption order shall contain a direction to the Registra- Registrar to make in the Adopted Children Register an entry in adoptions, the form set out in the Schedule, and (subject to the provisions Schedule. of subsection (2)), shall specify the particulars to be entered under the headings in columns 2 to 6 of that form.
(2) For the purposes of compliance with the requirements of subsection (1)-
(a) where the precise date of the infant's birth is not proved to the satisfaction of the Court, the Court shall determine the probable date of his birth and the date so determined shall be specified in the order as the date of his birth; (b) where the name or surname which the infant is to bear after the adoption differs from his original name or sur- name, the new name or surname shall be specified in the order instead of the original;
and where the country of birth of the infant is not proved to the satisfaction of the Court, the particulars of that country may, notwithstanding anything in that subsection, be omitted from the order and from the entry in the Adopted Children Register.
(3) Where upon any application to the Court for an adoption order in respect of an infant (not being an infant who has pre- viously been the subject of an adoption order made by the Court) there is proved to the satisfaction of the Court the identity of the infant with a child to whom an entry in the registers of births