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Adoption of Children Act 1994
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(1) The Administrator may make regulations, not inconsistent with this
Act, prescribing matters:
(a) required or permitted by this Act to be prescribed; or
(b) necessary or convenient to be prescribed for carrying out or
giving effect to this Act,
but Regulations shall not be made in respect of a matter in respect
of which the Court may make rules under section 48 of the Local
Court Act 2015.
(2) Without limiting the generality of subsection (1), the Regulations
may provide for and in relation to:
(a) the Forms to be used for the purposes of this Act;
(b) the manner and form of the witnessing of a consent to an
adoption;
(c) the making, correction or cancellation of entries in the Register
of Adoptions;
(d) the making, correction or cancellation of entries relating to
adopted children in the Register of Births kept under the law of
the Territory;
(e) the furnishing of copies of, or extracts from, matters included
in the Register of Adoptions, and
(f) penalties for an offence against the Regulations.