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Ord. No. 48/77

Amendment of section 20.

7.

ADOPTION (AMENDMENT)

Section 20 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following-

"[cf. 1976 c.36,

Schedule 1, para. 4.]

(1) The Court may, on the application of the adopter or of the adopted person, amend the order by the correc- tion 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 1 year beginning with the date of the order any new name has 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 specified in the particulars re- quired to be entered in the Adopted Children Register in pursuance of the order, amend the order by substituting or adding that name in those particulars, as the case may require;

(b) if satisfied on the application of any person con- cerned that a direction for the marking of an entry in the registers of births or the Adopted Children Register included in the order in pursuance of section 19(3) or (4) was wrongly so included, revoke that direction.";

(b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following new subsection- "(1A) Where 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, 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 registers of births or the Adopted Children Register to cancelled."; and

(c) in subsection (2)—-

(i) by deleting "which made the order"; and

(ii) by inserting after "entry" in the second place where it occurs, the following-

"or any marking of an entry”.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 29th day of June,

1977.

L. TSE,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

L. TSE,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.