Note : See section 25A(3) in relation to the requirement
for the Registrar to issue more than 1 certificate for adopted persons.
(2) A
certificate under subsection (1) (a) is admissible in legal proceedings as
evidence of--
(a) the entry to which the certificate relates, and
(b) the
facts recorded in the entry.
(3) If the word "illegitimate", or any other word or expression referring to
the fact that a child was born outside marriage, appears in an entry in the
Register, that word or expression is not to be included in any certificate
issued by the Registrar.
(3A) If an entry in the register records information
referred to in section 42(3)(b), that information is not to be included in a
certificate issued by the Registrar.
(4) If requested to do so by an
applicant, and authorised to do so under the Adoption Act 2000 , the
Registrar must issue a single certificate (an
"adopted person's birth record" ) certifying particulars contained in an entry
relating to the birth of a person and particulars relating to a record sent to
the Registrar under Chapter 7 of the Adoption Act 2000(or a memorandum under
the former Acts) and registered under this Act.
(5) If requested to do so by
an applicant, and authorised to do so under the Surrogacy Act 2010 , the
Registrar must issue the applicant with a full birth record, being a single
certificate that certifies particulars relating to the birth of a person
registered under section 17 and particulars of a parentage order or discharge
of a parentage order relating to the person registered by the Registrar under
Part 4A.
