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Registration of adoption orders. 25.(1) The court by which an adoption order has been made may, on the application of the adopter or of the adopted person, amend the order by the correction of any error in the particulars contained therein, and may (a)if satisfied on the application of the adopter or of the adopted person that within one year beginning with the date of the order any new name or names has or have been given to the adopted person (whether in baptism or otherwise), or taken by him, either in lieu of or in addition to a name or names specified in the particulars required to be entered in the Adopted Children Register in pursuance of the order, amend the order by substituting or adding that name or names in those particulars, as the case may require; (b)if satisfied on the application of any person concerned that a direction for the marking of an entry in the Register of Births or the Adopted Children Register included in the order in pursuance of section 24(4) or (5) was wrongly so included, revoke that direction. (2) Where an adoption order is amended or a direction revoked under subsection (1), the prescribed officer of the court shall cause the amendment to be communicated in the prescribed manner to the Registrar General who shall as the case may require, (a)cause the entry in the Adopted Children Register to be amended accordingly; or (b)cause the marking of the entry in the Register of Births or the Adopted Children Register to be cancelled. (3) Where an adoption order is quashed or an appeal against an adoption order is allowed by any court the court shall give direction to the Registrar General to cancel any entry in the Adopted Children Register and any marking of an entry in that Register or the Register of Births which was effected in pursuance of the order. (4) Where an adoption order has been amended, any certified copy of the relevant entry in the Adopted Children Register which may be issued pursuant to section 23(2) shall be a copy of the entry as amended, without the reproduction of any note or marking relating to the amendment or of any matter cancelled pursuant thereto; and a copy or extract of an entry in any register, being an entry the marking of which has been cancelled, shall be deemed to be an accurate copy if and only if both the marking and the cancellation are ommited therefrom. (5) Without prejudice to the provisions of section 3 of the Legitimacy Act (Northern Ireland) 1961 (which provides for applications for the revocation of adoption orders and the cancellation of entries relating to that order in any registers upon the legitimation of any person) where, after an entry in the Register of Births has been marked with the word "Adopted", the birth is re-registered under section 30 of the Births and Deaths Registration Act (Northern Ireland) 1967 (which provides for the re-registration of the birth of legitimated persons) the entry made on the re-registration shall be marked in the like manner. (6) Where the Registrar General has, in accordance with section 24(7), caused a notification of any particulars to be transmitted to any authority maintaining a Register of Births or an Adopted Children Register or any corresponding register of adoptions in England and Wales, Scotland, the Isle of Man or any of the Channel Islands, and any of those particulars are amended, revoked or cancelled under this section, the Registrar General shall cause a notification of such amendment, revocation or cancellation to be transmitted to that authority.
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