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ADOPTION OF CHILDREN REGULATION 1999 - SECT 27

27 Searches and copies

(1) A person may make any of the following applications to the registrar general--

(a) in relation to an adoption order, or a memorandum or copy of an adoption order, entered in the adopted children register--
(i) if there is a schedule to the order, memorandum or copy--an application for a certificate, in the approved form, containing the particulars stated in the schedule; or
(ii) otherwise--an application for a certificate, in the approved form, containing the particulars stated in the order, memorandum or copy;
(b) in relation to the register kept by the registrar general titled 'Record of Children whose Births have been registered in the State of Queensland and who have been transferred under Deed of Adoption'--an application for a certificate, in the approved form, containing the information about an adoption recorded in the register;
(c) an application for the registrar general to search the adoption registers for information that would be contained in a certificate mentioned in paragraph (a) or (b);
(d) an application for an extract from an entry in an adoption register, containing the particulars that, under the Registration Act, the extract is required to contain.

(2) The application must be accompanied by the relevant fee prescribed under the Registration Act.

(3) Section 44 of the Registration Act applies to the application as if it were made under that Act.

(4) Subject to section 39C of the Act, a person is not entitled to search, or to obtain a copy of, or extract from, an entry relating to an adopted person in the register of births, other than under an order of the Supreme Court.

(5) In this section--

Registration Act means the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003.



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