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superior to or equal with that of any natural parent in respect of any property of the adopted person which was capable of passing to the parents or any parent of the person in the event of the person dying intestate without other next of kin and domiciled in the place where the adoption was made and a national of the State which had jurisdiction in respect of that place,
but not otherwise.
(3) Nothing in this section shall restrict or alter the effect of any other adoption made in any place outside Hong Kong.
(Added, 21 of 1960, s. 7)
REGISTRATION OF ADOPTION ORDERS
18. (1) The Registrar shall maintain at the general register office a register, to be called the Adopted Children Register, in 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 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 record and make traceable the connexion between any entry in the registers of births which has been marked "Adopted" pursuant to section 19 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 thereof be, open to public inspection or search, nor, except under an order of the Court, shall the Registrar furnish any person with any information contained in or with any copy or extract from any such registers or books.
Adopted
Children Register. 1950 c. 26, s. 17.
(Cap. 174.)
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superior to or equal with that of any natural parent in respect of any property of the adopted person which was capable of passing to the parents or any parent of the person in the event of the person dying intestate without other next of kin and domiciled in the place where the adoption was made and a national of the State which had jurisdiction in respect of that place,
but not otherwise.
(3) Nothing in this section shall restrict or alter the effect of any other adoption made in any place outside Hong Kong.
(Added, 21 of 1960, s. 7)
REGISTRATION OF ADOPTION ORDERS
18. (1) The Registrar shall maintain at the general register office a register, to be called the Adopted Children Register, in 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 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 record and make traceable the connexion between any entry in the registers of births which has been marked "Adopted" pursuant to section 19 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 thereof be, open to public inspection or search, nor, except under an order of the Court, shall the Registrar furnish any person with any information contained in or with any copy or extract from any such registers or books.
Adopted
Children Register. 1950 c. 26, s. 17.
(Cap. 174.)
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