Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts57. Particulars of orders received from other States
Where the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages receives, in relation to a child whose birth is registered in the Territory, a memorandum or copy of an order for adoption made in accordance with the law in force in a State or another Territory of the Commonwealth, or an order discharging such an order, certified in writing to be a true memorandum or copy by a person authorised so to certify under the law of that State or other Territory, he or she shall -
(a) register it, as prescribed, in the Register of Adoptions kept by him or her; and
(b) make such alterations to, or entries in, the Register of Births, kept by him or her, as are prescribed or, if not prescribed, as he or she thinks fit.