Adoption Act 2010
Amendment of Civil Registration Act 2004. |
159.— The Civil Registration Act 2004 is amended— | |
(a) in section 2— | ||
(i) in subsection (1)— | ||
(I) by deleting the definitions of “ adoption” and “foreign adoption”, | ||
(II) in the definition of “event”, to delete the references to adoption and foreign adoption, | ||
(III) by deleting paragraph (c) of the definition of “registrar”, and | ||
(IV) by deleting paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of “ the required particulars”, | ||
(ii) in subsection (3)(a), by deleting “adoption, foreign adoption,”, | ||
(b) in section 8— | ||
(i) in subsection (1)(a), by deleting “adoptions,”, | ||
(ii) in subsection (2), by substituting “deaths and marriages” for “deaths, marriages, adoptions and foreign adoptions”, | ||
(iii) in subsection (4), by inserting “, including his or her functions under Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Adoption Act 2010” after “the performance of his or her functions”, | ||
(iv) in subsection (5), by inserting “, including his or her functions under Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Adoption Act 2010” after “the performance of his or her functions”, and | ||
(v) in subsection (6), by inserting “, including his or her functions under Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Adoption Act 2010” after “such of his or her functions”, | ||
(c) by deleting subsections (1)(c) and (5) of section 13, | ||
(d) in section 61, by substituting the following for subsection (3): | ||
“(3) This section does not apply to the register of stillbirths or an index to that register or an index kept under— | ||
(a) section 22 (5) of the Adoption Act 1952 , or | ||
(b) section 86 of the Adoption Act 2010.”, | ||
(e) in section 73— | ||
(i) in subsection (1), by substituting the following for paragraphs (f) to (h): | ||
“(f) decrees of nullity, or | ||
(g) any other prescribed matters.”, | ||
(ii) in subsection (3)(a), by substituting “decree of divorce or decree of nullity” for “decree of divorce, decree of nullity or adoption” in both places where it occurs, and | ||
(iii) in subsection (7), by substituting “decree of divorce or decree of nullity” for “decree of divorce, decree of nullity or adoption”, | ||
(f) in the First Schedule, by deleting Parts 3 and 4, and | ||
(g) in the Second Schedule, by deleting the references to the enactments specified in Schedule 4 . |