Hong Kong Regulations

ADOPTION RULES - RULE 26

Notice of amendment to be sent to Registrar of Births and Deaths

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made-see 25 of 1998 s. 2 Where an order for the
amendment of an adoption order or the revocation of a direction for the
marking of an entry in the registers of births or the Adopted Children
Register is made under section 20(1) of the Ordinance, the Registrar of the
High Court or the District Court shall send to the Registrar of Births and
Deaths a notice specifying the date of the adoption order and the names of the
adopter and of the adopted person (as described in the schedule to the
adoption order) and stating what amendments are to be made in the particulars
specified in that order. (L.N. 228 of 1977; L.N. 337 of 1982; 25 of 1998 s. 2)