Registration of Adoptions Act · As enacted
12. Search for and certified copy of entry in adoption registers
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
The Registrar General of Adoptions and every Registrar shall cause indices to be made of the registers of adoptions kept by them.
Any person upon application to the Registrar General of
Adoptions or a Registrar, and upon payment of the prescribed fee shall be entitled to have a search made in the adoption register and index thereof, and to have a certified copy of any entry in such register.
Every certified copy of any entry in a register of adoptions, if such copy purports to be signed by any person entrusted under this Act with the custody of any register of adoptions —
shall be received for all purposes and in all courts as evidence of the adoption to which it relates; and
where the entry contains a record of the date of the birth of that adopted child, shall be received not only as evidence of the adoption but also as evidence of the date of the birth of the adopted child, without further proof of such register or any entry therein or of such signature but not of the validity of such adoption:
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Provided a court may, in the absence of any evidence to the contrary, presume any adoption so registered to have been valid and the onus of proving that there was no such valid adoption shall be on the person alleging it.
Terms defined in s 2
Registrar
Defined · s 2“Registrar” means a Registrar of Adoptions appointed under section 4 and includes a Deputy Registrar;
Registrar General of Adoptions
Defined · s 2“Registrar General of Adoptions” means the person appointed to be Registrar of Births and Deaths for Brunei Darussalam under section 3 of the Registration of Births and Deaths Act.