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In forceEvidential value of adoption compliance certificate
Chapter 5Recognition of adoptions
Part 2Intercountry and overseas adoptions
Division 3Bilateral arrangements
115 Evidential value of adoption compliance certificate
An adoption compliance certificate issued in a prescribed overseas jurisdiction, or adoption order certified by the competent authority of such a country as having been made in accordance with the law of that country, is evidence, for the purposes of the law of the State, that the adoption to which the certificate or order relates was carried out under the law of the overseas jurisdiction whose competent authority issued the certificate or certified the order.
Note.
Adoption compliance certificate is defined in the Dictionary.
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