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ADOPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 64

64. Record of adoptions of persons born outside Australia

      (1) The Registrar shall, on receipt of a memorandum under section 62 in relation to the making of an adoption order for the adoption of a person born in a place outside Australia, cause an entry in the prescribed form to be made in the special record.

      (2) Where, before the commencement of this section –

(a) an order for the adoption of a person born in a place outside Australia was made under the repealed Act; or

(b) an order for the adoption of a person born in any such place was registered in the former register of adoptions –

the Registrar may, on application by that person or an adoptive parent of that person, cause to be made in relation to that person the same entry in the special record as he would have made if the order for the adoption of that person had been made under this Act after the commencement of this section.



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