Cap. 16 Art. 127Amendment of decree and rectification of registers.

(1) The court by which an adoption decree has been made may, on the application of the adopter or of the adopted person, amend the decree by the correction of any error in the particulars contained therein and may, if satisfied on the application of any person concerned that a direction for the making of an entry in the register book of acts of birth or the Adopted Persons Register included in the decree in pursuance of sub-article (3) or sub-article

(4) of article 125 was wrongly so included, revoke that direction; and where an adoption decree is so amended or a direction revoked, the Registrar of Courts shall cause the amendment to be communicated to the Director of the Public Registry within fifteen days of the making of such decree; and any necessary correction of or addition to the Adopted Persons Register or cancellation of the marking of an entry in the register book of acts of birth or the Adopted Persons Register shall be made accordingly.

(2) Where an adoption decree has been amended any certified copy of the relevant entry in the Adopted Persons Register which may be issued pursuant to article 269(5) 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 certified copy of an entry in any register, being an entry the marking of which has been cancelled, shall be deemed to be an accurate copy only if both the marking and the cancellation are omitted therefrom.