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Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1997
16BRe-registration of birth if parentage order made
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16B Re-registration of birth if parentage order made
(1) If the registrar-general receives a sealed copy of a parentage order
mentioned in section 16A (1) for a child whose birth is registered
under this Act, the registrar-general must re-register the birth of the
child by entering in the register—
(a) particulars, from the copy of the parentage order, of—
(i) the child’s name after the order was made; and
(ii) the child’s sex, date and place of birth; and
(iii) the intended parent or intended parents of the child in
whose favour the order was made; and
(b) a notation to the entry, signed and dated by the registrar-general,
to the effect that the birth of the child is registered under this
subsection.
(2) On re-registering the birth of a child under subsection (1), the
registrar-general must sign and date a notation, written on the page of
the register that contains the original entry of the birth, to the effect
that the birth of the child has been re-registered under subsection (1)
on a stated page of the register.
(3) If a parentage order relates to a child who has previously been
adopted, the registrar-general must re-register the birth of the child as
if the entry relating to the adoption were the original entry of the
child’s birth.