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Adoption of Children Act 1994
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57 Particulars of orders received from other States
If 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, or an order discharging an
adoption 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, the Registrar must:
(a) register it, as prescribed, in the Register of Adoptions; and
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(b) make any alterations to, or entries in, the Register of Births,
kept by the Registrar, as are prescribed or, if not prescribed,
the Registrar thinks appropriate.
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