Civil Registration Act 2004

Registration of adoptions.

32.—(1) An officer of the Board authorised by it in that behalf shall enter in the register the required particulars relating to an adoption pursuant to an adoption order whether made before or after the commencement of this section but not registered in the Adopted Children Register maintained under section 22 of the Act of 1952 and shall register the adoption in such manner as an tArd-Chláraitheoir may direct.

(2) If the date of an adopted child's birth is not known, the Board shall determine the probable date of the birth and that date shall be entered in the register as the child's date of birth and, if the Board subsequently ascertains the actual date of the child's birth, the determination shall be cancelled and the actual date shall be entered in the register and the adoption order relating to the child shall be correspondingly amended.

(3) The country of birth of an adopted child shall be entered in the register if the Board, being satisfied of the identity thereof, so directs.

(4) If an adoption order is amended, the entry in the register relating to it shall be correspondingly amended.

(5) If an adoption order is set aside, the entry in the register shall be cancelled.