Western Australian Current Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1994 - SECT 86

86 .         Portion of registration of birth not referring to adoption, Registrar may issue copy of

        (1)         At the request of —

            (a)         an adoptee’s adoptive parent, if the adoptee is less than 18 years of age; or

            (b)         an adoptee, if the adoptee is 18 or more years of age,

                the Registrar is to issue to the person making the request, a certified copy of that portion of the registration of the adoptee’s birth that does not refer to the adoptee’s adoption or birth parents.

        (2)         A certified copy of that portion of the registration of an adoptee’s birth that does not refer to the adoptee’s adoption or birth parents that is issued by the Registrar under subsection (1) is admissible in legal proceedings as evidence of the facts recorded on the document.

        [Section 86 amended: No. 40 of 1998 s. 6(10); No. 8 of 2003 s. 46.]

[ 87.         Deleted: No. 3 of 2003 s. 47.]