6(1)This paragraph applies where an adoption order is revoked under section 55(1).
(2)The prescribed officer of the court must communicate the revocation in the prescribed manner to the Registrar General who must then cancel or secure the cancellation of—
(a)the entry in the Adopted Children Register relating to the adopted person, and
(b)the marking with the word “Adopted” of any entry relating to the adopted person in the registers of live-births or other records.
“Prescribed” means prescribed by rules.
(3)A copy or extract of an entry in any register or other record, being an entry the marking of which is cancelled under this paragraph, is not to be treated as an accurate copy unless both the marking and the cancellation are omitted from it.
Commencement Information
I1Sch. 1 para. 6 in force at 30.12.2005 by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 2(e) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)