Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts55. Registration of overseas birth and adoption order
(1) Where an order is made pursuant to section 52, the Registrar shall cause a copy of the order to be forwarded to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
(2) Where an adoption of a child which took place in an overseas county is one that the Minister, by notice in the Gazette pursuant to section 51, determines is to have the same effect as if an adoption made in a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth -
(a) the adoptive parent or parents in respect of the adoption may apply to the Minister for a prescribed certificate that the adoption is an adoption to which section 51 applies; and
(b) the Minister shall, as soon as practicable after causing the certificate to be prepared, cause a copy of the certificate to be forwarded to the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages.
(3) Upon receipt of a copy of the order forwarded in accordance with subsection (1) or of a copy of a certificate forwarded in accordance with subsection (2), the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages shall -
(a) register it, as prescribed, in the Register of Adoptions kept by him or her; 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.