72Registration of orders received from other States etc.

72 Registration of orders received from other States etc. Where the Registrar receives, in relation to a person whose birth is registered in Victoria, a memorandum or copy of an order for the adoption of the person made (whether or not by a court) under the law in force in another State or in a Territory or made in a country outside the Commonwealth and the Territories and recognized under Part IV or Part IVA or of an order for the discharge of such an order, certified in writing to be a true memorandum or copy by a person authorized so to certify under the law of that State, Territory or country, the Registrar shall— (a) in the case of an order for adoption, register the adoption— S. 72(a)(i) amended by No. 10244 s. 10. (i) by endorsing on the memorandum or copy an official number and placing the memorandum or copy in the Register of Adoptions kept by the Registrar; and S. 72(a)(ii) amended by No. 10244 s. 10. (ii) by making an entry in the Adopted Children Register kept by the Registrar of the prescribed particulars ascertained from the memorandum or copy; or (b) in the case of an order for the discharge of an order for adoption that has been registered in the Register of Adoptions, register the order— S. 72(b)(i) amended by No. 10244 s. 10. (i) by placing it with the order for adoption to which it relates in the Register of Adoptions kept by the Registrar; and S. 72(b)(ii) amended by No. 10244 s. 10. (ii) by making a notation of the discharge in the entry in the Adopted Children Register kept by the Registrar to which it relates and in the entry in the Register of Births relating to the birth of the person. S. 73 amended by No. 10244 s. 10.