ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 70 Registration of orders
ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 70
Registration of ordersS. 70(1) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.
(1) The prescribed officer of the Court shall cause a memorandum, in accordance with the prescribed form, of each adoption order to be sent to the Registrar who shall register the adoption—
S. 70(1)(a) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.
(a) by endorsing on the memorandum, an official number and placing the memorandum in a Register of Adoptions kept by the Registrar; and
S. 70(1)(b) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.
(b) by making an entry in the Adopted Children Register kept by the Registrar of the prescribed particulars ascertained from the memorandum.
S. 70(2) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.
(2) Where an order for the adoption of a child to whom section 50 applies is made, the prescribed officer of the Court shall cause to be sent to the Registrar a memorandum giving the name of the Aboriginal agency (if any) concerned in the arrangements for the adoption and stating that the provisions of section 114 apply.
S. 70(3) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.
(3) The prescribed officer of the Court shall cause a copy of each order for the discharge of an adoption order to be sent to the Registrar who shall, where the order is for the discharge of an adoption order that has been registered in the Register of Adoptions, register the order—
S. 70(3)(a) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.
(a) by placing it with the adoption order to which it relates in the Register of Adoptions kept by the Registrar; and
S. 70(3)(b) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.
(b) by making a notation of the discharge in the entry in the Adopted Children Register kept by the Registrar and, where the order relates to a person whose birth is registered in Victoria, in the entry in the Register of Births relating to the birth.
No. 7147 s. 58.