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Adopted
children
Tegister,

Ch. 29. No. 7.] Adoption of Children.

up, maintained and educated by any person or two spouses
jointly as his, her or their own child under any de facto
adoption, and has for a period of not less than two years
before such commencement been in such custody, and been
so brought up, maintained and educated, the Court may,
upon the application of such persons or spouses, and
notwithstanding that the applicant is male make an
adoption order authorising him, her or them to adopt the
child without requiring the consent of any parent or guardian
of the child to be obtained, upon being satisfied after inquiry
by the Board that in all the circumstances of the case it is
just and equitable and for the welfare of the child that no
such consent should be required and that an adoption order
should be made.

21. (1) The Registrar General shall establish and maintain
at his 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) Every adoption order shall contain a direction to
the Registrar General to make in the Adopted Children
Register an entry recording the adoption in the form sct
out in the Schedule hereto.

(3) If upon any application for an adoption order there
is proved to the satisfaction of the Court—

(a) the date of the birth of the child; and

(6) the identity of the child with a child to which any
entry or entries in the Registers of Births relates;

the adoption order shall contain a further direction to the
Registrar General to cause such birth, entry or entries in
the Register of Births, to be marked with the word
“adopted” and to include in the entry in the adoption
register recording the adoption the date stated in the
Order of the adopted child’s birth in the manner indicated
in the Schedule hereto.

(4) The prescribed officer of the Court shall cause
every adoption order to be communicated in the prescribed
manner to the Registrar General, and upon receipt of
such communication the Registrar General shall cause