Registration
23 Registration
The registrar-general must register a memorandum of an adoption order by entering particulars of the adoption in the register of adoptions.
If the registrar-general receives a memorandum or copy of an adoption order made under a law in force in a State or in another Territory, the registrar-general must register it by entering particulars of the adoption in the register of adoptions.
If the registrar-general receives a copy of an order, made under the Act or made under a law of a State or another Territory, for the discharge of an adoption order that has been registered in the register of adoptions, the registrar-general must register it by entering particulars of the discharge on the page of the register of adoptions where the adoption order was registered.
The registrar-general must register a copy of an adoption order declared by the court under the Act, section 57M to be an adoption that complies with the Act, section 57L by entering the relevant particulars in the register of adoptions.
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