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(1) The Registrar-General shall maintain at his office an Adopted Children Register in which shall be recorded particulars of the adoption order or interim order as the court may direct to be made under this Part.

(2) Notwithstanding the provision made in any regulations under the Adoption Act (Act No. 104 of 1962), every adoption order or interim order made by a court shall be served on the Registrar-General by the registrar of the court concerned within 30 days of the making of the order.

(3) The Registrar-General may by executive instrument make rules with respect to the Adopted Children Register particularly rules:

(a) for the admission in evidence of a certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children Register;

(b) as to searches in that Register and the fees to be charged for service in connection with that Register.

(4) The Registrar-General shall keep other records that relate to entries in the Register of Births on adoption together with entries in the Adopted Children Register but these records shall not be available to the public and shall not be given to any person except under a court order.