Adoption Act, 1991
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Directions of High Court in relation to entries in Register of Foreign Adoptions. |
7.—(1) If, on application to the Court in that behalf by a person who may make an application to the Board under section 6 (2) of this Act, the Court is satisfied that an entry should be made in the Register with respect to an adoption or that an entry in the Register with respect to an adoption should be cancelled or that a correction should be made in an entry in the Register, the Court may by order, as appropriate— | |
(a) direct the Board to procure the making of a specified entry in the Register, | ||
(b) direct the Board to procure the cancellation of the entry concerned in the Register, or | ||
(c) direct the Board to make a specified correction in the Register. | ||
(2) If the Court refuses to give a direction under paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of this section or gives a direction under paragraph (b) of that subsection, the adoption concerned shall be deemed not to have been effected by a valid adoption order. | ||
(3) (a) The Court may direct that notice of an application under the said subsection (1) shall be given by the person making the application to such other persons (including the Attorney General and the Board) as it may determine and may, of its own motion or on application to it in that behalf by the person concerned or a party to the proceedings in relation to the application under the said subsection (1), add any person as a party to those proceedings. | ||
(b) The Attorney General, of his own motion or if so requested by the Court, may, without being added as party to proceedings in relation to an application under the said subsection (1), make submissions to the Court in relation to the application. | ||
(4) Proceedings under this section shall, if the Court so determines, be heard otherwise than in public. |