[Rev. 2012] Children CAP. 141 adoption to which it relates, and, where the entry contains a record of the date of the birth or the country of birth of the adopted person, shall also be received as aforesaid as evidence of the date or country in all respects as if the copy was a certified copy of an entry in the Registry of Births. (3) The Registrar-General shall cause an index of the Adopted Children Register to be made and every person shall be entitled to search that index and to have a certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children Register upon payment of such fee as may be prescribed. (4) The Registrar-General shall, in addition to the Adopted Children Register and the index thereof, keep such other registers and books, and make such entries therein, as may be necessary to record and make traceable the connection between any entry in the Register of Births which has been marked “Adopted” and any corresponding entry in the Adopted Children Register, but such other register or books shall not be, nor shall any index thereof be, open to public inspection or search, except under the order of a court of competent jurisdiction, shall the Registrar General supply any person who requests information with respect to his own adoption, with any information contained in or with any copy or extract from any such registers or books. 170. Registration of adoption orders (1) Every adoption order made by the court shall contain a direction to the Registrar-General to make an entry in the Adopted Children Register in the prescribed form. (2) For the purposes of compliance with the requirements of subsection (1)— (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; and (b) where the country of birth of the child is not proved to the satisfaction of the court, the particulars of that country may, notwithstanding anything in that subsection, be omitted from the order and from the entry in the Adopted Children Register. (3) Where upon an application to the court for an adoption order in respect of a child not being a child who has previously been the subject of an adoption order made by the court under this Act or the Adoption Act (Cap. 143) (now repealed), there is proof to the satisfaction of the court of the identity of the child to whom an entry in the Register of Births relates, any adoption order made in pursuance of the application shall contain a direction to the Registrar-General to cause the entry in the Register of Births to be marked with the word “Adopted”. (4) Where an adoption order is made by the court in respect of a child who has previously been the subject of an adoption order made by such court under this Act or the Adoption Act (Cap. 143) (now repealed), the order shall contain a direction to the Registrar-General to be marked with the word “Re-adopted”. C15 - 79 [Issue 1]