Victorian Current Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 80

S. 80(1) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.

    (1)     Where an order for adoption is discharged, being an order—

        (a)     relating to a person—

              (i)     whose birth is registered in Victoria; or

              (ii)     an entry relating to whose previous adoption is entered in the Adopted Children Register; and

        (b)     a memorandum or copy of which is registered under this Division—

the Registrar shall—

        (c)     delete the word "adopted" in the entry relating to the birth in the Register of Births or in the Adopted Children Register, as the case may be; and

        (d)     where the order relates to the name of the person, mark the entry in the Register of Births or Adopted Children Register with particulars of the order.

S. 80(2) amended by No. 10244 s. 10.

    (2)     Where an order for adoption is discharged, being an order a memorandum or copy of which is registered under this Division, the Registrar, notwithstanding the deletion of the word "adopted" from the entry in the Register of Births or the Adopted Children Register, shall not issue an extract from, or copy of, that entry if the order for the discharge provides to that effect.

S. 81 amended by Nos 10244 s. 10, 43/1996 s. 65(Sch. item 1.6).