PART 10

PART 10
Adopted Children Register and Register of Intercountry Adoptions

Chapter 1
Adopted Children Register

SECTION 83

Authority to send particulars to Ard-Chláraitheoir for entries in Adopted Children Register.

83.— The Authority shall send to an tArd-Chláraitheoir the particulars necessary to enable him or her to comply with this Part.

SECTION 84

Adopted Children Register.

84.— (1) The Adopted Children Register maintained by an tArd-Chláraitheoir in accordance with section 22 of the Adoption Act 1952 shall, notwithstanding the repeal of that section by section 7 (1)—

(a) continue in being, and

(b) be kept and maintained by an tArd-Chláraitheoir in accordance with this Chapter.

(2) An entry shall be made in the Adopted Children Register with respect to each adopted child who is the subject of an adoption order made by the Authority.

(3) Each entry shall contain the particulars, appropriate to the adoption concerned, specified in Schedule 3.

(4) If the date of the adopted child]s birth is unknown—

(a) the Authority shall determine the probable date of birth, and

(b) that date shall be entered in the Adopted Children Register as the adopted