Registration of Adoption Orders.
Every
adoption must be registered in the Adopted
Children Register, which has been in
existence since 1975.
An adopted person has a right to apply to
the Registrar General to obtain a copy of
his / her birth certificate once 18.
Also, since 1984 there is an obligation
on the Registrar General to keep "Adoption
Contact Register" containing names of
adopted persons and their relatives.
If an adopted person applies to the
Registrar General he or she must be given
the name of a registered relative and it
must be the adopted person who makes the
move to contact that relative.