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Section 53 Adopted Children Register and indexC1C2

Scotland

I1(1)

The Registrar General must continue to maintain—

(a)

a register to be called the Adopted Children Register, and

(b)

an index of the Adopted Children Register.

(2)

No entries may be made in the Adopted Children Register other than entries—

(a)

directed to be made in it by adoption orders, or

(b)

required to be made under schedule 1.

(3)

The provisions of the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Scotland) Act 1965 (c. 49) with regard to the correction of errors in entries apply in relation to entries in the Adopted Children Register as they apply in relation to entries in any register of births.

I2I3(4)

Schedule 1 (which makes provision about registration of adoptions and the amendment of adoption orders) has effect.

Annotations

Modifications

C1

Ss. 53-55 applied in part (with modifications) (28.9.2009) by Adoptions with a Foreign Element (Scotland) Regulations 2009 (S.S.I. 2009/182), regs. 1(1), 9(5)

C2

S. 53 applied (with modifications) (6.4.2010) by The Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Parental Orders) Regulations 2010 (S.I. 2010/985), regs. 1(1), 4, Sch. 3

Commencement

I1

S. 53(1)-(3) in force at 28.9.2009 by S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)

I2

S. 53(4) in force at 20.4.2009 for specified purposes by S.S.I. 2009/147, art. 2, Sch.

I3

S. 53(4) in force at 28.9.2009 in so far as not already in force by S.S.I. 2009/267, arts. 1(2), 2 (with arts. 3-21) (as amended (7.5.2012) by S.S.I. 2012/99, art. 2)