Section 142 Child’s Right Act
Section 142 Child’s Right Act 2003 is about Establishment of the Adopted Children Register. It is under Part XII (Adoption) of the Act.
(1) The Chief Registrar shall establish and maintain a register to be called and known as the
“Adopted Children Register” in which shall be made such entries as may be directed by an adoption order to be made therein, but no other entries.
(2) An adoption order shall contain a direction to the Chief Registrar and the National Population Commission (in this Part of this Act referred to as the Commission)to make in the Adopted Children
Register entry in the form specified in the Fifth Schedule to this Act.
[Fifth Schedule]
(3) If on any application to the Court for an adoption, there is proved to the satisfaction of the Court that‐
(a) the date of the birth of the child; and
(b) the identity of the child is identical to, a child, to whom any entry in the Register of Births kept by the Commission relates, the adoption order shall contain a further direction to the Chief Registrar to cause that birth entry in the Register of Births to be marked Adopted and to include in the entry relating to the adoption of the child in the Adopted Children Register the day of the child’s birth.
(4) Where an adoption order is made in respect or a child who had been the subject of a previous adoption order, made by the court under this Act, the order shall contain a direction to the Chief Registrar and the Commission to cause the previous entry in the Adopted Children Register in respect of that child to be marked “Re‐adopted”.
(5) The Court shall cause a copy of every adoption order to be communicated to the Chief Registrar and the Commission and on receipt of the order, the Chief Registrar and the Commission shall comply with the directions contained therein.
(6) A certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children Register if purporting to be stamped or sealed by the Chief Registrars office shall be proof of the adoption as is therein specified and where the copy of the entry includes the date of the birth of the child to whom it relates, it shall be proof also of the date without any further evidence as though the same were also a certified copy of an entry in the Register of Births.
(7) The Chief Registrar shall cause an index of the Adopted Children Register to be made and kept in the Registry,
(8) The Chief Registrar shall, in addition to the Adopted Children Register and the index thereof keep such other registers and books and make such entries therein as may be necessary to record, in connection with an entry in the Register of Births which has been marked Adopted,
(9) Any such Register or books as are mentioned in subsection (8) of this section or any index thereof. if any, shall not be liable to searches by members of the public and the Chief Registrar shall make a certified copy thereof or furnish any information therein contained to any person except under an order made by the Court.
(10) On the revocation of an adoption order, the Court shall cause the fact of the revocation to be communicated to the Chief Registrar who shall cause to be cancelled‐
(a) the entry in the Adopted Children Register relating to the adopted child; and
(b) the marking with the word Adopted or Re‐adopted of any entry relating to the child in the Register of Births.
(11) A copy of an extract of an entry in any register being an entry the marking of which is cancelled under this section shall be deemed to be an accurate copy if both the marking and the cancellation are omitted therefrom.
