THE CHILDREN (ADOPTION OF) ACT

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(3) Where a Resident Magistrate grants a licence
under this section, he may authorize the making or receipt
by any person of any payments in consideration of the
transfer of the care and possession of the child in respect
of whom the licence is granted.
(4) Rules with respect to the application for and
grant of licences are set out in the Third Schedule, and
such rules may be added to, varied or revoked by rules ~ 1 9 6 9
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made under or by virtue of subsection (3) of section 20.
(5) In any proceedings under this section, a report
by a Jamaican or British consular officer or a deposition
made before a Jamaican or British consular officer and
authenticated under the signature of that officer shall be
admissible in evidence, and it shall not be necessary to
prove the signature or official character of the person who
appears to have signed any such report or deposition.
25.41) The Registrar-General appointed under the Adopted
Children
provisions of the Registration (Births and Deaths) Act shall Register.
establish and maintain at his office a register to be called
the Adopted Children Register, in which shall be made
such entries as may be directed to be made therein by
adoption orders, but no other entries.
(2) Every adoption order shall contain a direction
to the Registrar-General to make in the Adopted Children
Register an entry recording the adoption in the form set 37/1974
out as Form A in the Fourth Schedule.
(3) For the purposes of compliance with the requirements
of subsection (2)-
(a) where the precise date of the child’s birth is not
proved to the satisfaction of the Court the Court
shall determine the probable date of his birth and
the date so determined shall be specified in the
order as the date of his birth;
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S. 5 (a)
Fourth
Schedule