(1) The Registrar shall make entries in the Register of Adoptions as may be directed to be made in it under an adoption order.
(2) A certified copy of an entry in the Register of Adoptions, if purporting to be sealed or stamped with the seal or stamp of the Office of the Registrar is, without further or other proof of that entry, receivable as evidence of the adoption to which it relates.
(3) If the entry in the Register of Adoptions under subsection (2) contains a record of the date of the birth or the country of the birth of the adopted child, it is receivable as evidence of that date or country in all respects as if the copy were a certified copy of an entry in the Register of Births.
(4) The Registrar shall cause an index of the Register of Adoptions to be made and kept in the Registrar's office and a person is entitled to —
(a) search the index; and
(b) have a certified copy of an entry in the Register of Adoptions and subject to the same terms, conditions and Regulations as to payment of fees or otherwise as are applicable under the Civil Status Act in respect of —
(i) a search in a register kept in the Registrar's office, and
(ii) the supply from the office of certified copies of entries in the Register of Births.
(5) The Registrar shall keep other registers and books and make entries in the other registers as may be necessary to record and make traceable the connection between an entry in the Register of Births which has been marked “Adopted” under this Act and a corresponding entry in the Register of Adoptions.
(6) The registers and books kept under subsection (5) and index of the registers and books are not open to public inspection and search.
(7) The Registrar shall not furnish a person with information contained in or with a copy or extract from the registers or books, except under an order of a Court.
(8) For the purposes of compliance with the requirements of subsection (2) —
(a) if the precise date of the birth of a child is not proved to the satisfaction of the Court, the Court shall determine the probable date of the birth of the child and the date determined must be specified in the order as the date of birth of the child; or
(b) if the given name or surname which the child is to bear after the adoption differs from his or her original given name or surname, the new given name or surname must be specified in the order instead of the original given name or surname.