Adoption of Children Act 1994
57Particulars of orders received from other States
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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
Part 6 Access to information Adoption of Children Act 1994 33 (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. Part 6 Access to information