Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts54. Registration of orders
(1) The Registrar shall, as soon as practicable after every order for adoption, or every order discharging an order for adoption, is made by the Court under this Act, cause a memorandum, in accordance with the prescribed form, of the order for adoption, or a copy of the order discharging an order for adoption, to be sent to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, who shall -
(a) register it, as prescribed, in a register kept by him or her and known as the Register of Adoptions; and
(b) if it relates to a child whose birth is, or is required by the Regulations to be, registered in the Register of Births kept by him or her, make such alterations to, or entries in, that register as are prescribed or, if not prescribed, as he or she thinks fit.
(2) Where, under a law at any time in force in the Territory before the commencement of this Act, an order for the adoption of a child was made by a court of competent jurisdiction and a record of that order is held in the Territory, the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages may, in his or her discretion, require the person having the custody or control of the records of the court making the order to forward to him or her a copy of, or a memorandum relating to, the order and of any order for the discharge of the order.
(3) Upon receipt of a document forwarded to him or her in pursuance of subsection (2), the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages may, in his or her discretion -
(a) register it, as prescribed, in the Register of Adoptions; and
(b) if it relates to a child whose birth is, or is required by the Regulations to be, registered in a register kept by him or her, make such alterations to, or entry in, that register as are prescribed or, if not prescribed, as he or she thinks fit.
(4) For the purposes of this section, the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages may make such enquiries as he or she thinks fit to satisfy himself or herself that an order for adoption was made or discharged.
(5) The person having in his or her custody or control the records relating to an adoption order shall comply with a requirement of the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages made under subsection (2) and shall assist him or her in his or her reasonable enquiries made pursuant to subsection (4).