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compliance to be made with the directions contained in
such order in regard both to marking any entry in the
Registers of Births with the word “‘ adopted ”’ and in regard
to making the appropriate entry in the Adopted Children
Register.

(5) A certified copy of any entry in the Adopted
Children Register if purporting to be signed by the
Registrar General shall, without any further or other proof
of such entry—

(a) where the entry does not contain any record of the
date of the birth of the adopted child be received as
evidence of the adoption to which the same relates;
and

(b) where the entry contains a record of the date of
the birth of the adopted child shall be received not
only as evidence of the adoption to which the same
relates but also as evidence of the date of the birth
of the adopted child to which the same relates in all
respects as though the same were a certified copy of
an entry in the Register of Births.

(6) The Registrar General shall cause an index of the
Adopted Children Register to be made and kept in his
office, and every person shall be entitled to search such
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, or any other Ordinance, in
respect of searches in indexes relating to births and deaths
kept in the office of the Registrar General, and in respect
of the supply from such office of certified copies of entries
in the Registers of Births and Deaths.

(7) The Registrar General 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 register of births
which has been marked ‘adopted’”’ pursuant to this
Ordinance and any corresponding entry in the Adopted
Children Register, but such last-mentioned registers and

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