Special register
24(1)The Registrar General shall maintain a special register in which shall be kept
(a)
the original registrations of birth withdrawn from the registration files under section 22 and 23, and
(b)
the copies of all orders, judgments and decrees received by the Registrar General for the purposes of section 22.
24(1.1)Despite section 7 of the
Right to Information and Protection of Privacy Act and subject to this Act, the Registrar General is not required to grant access to or disclose any entry or information or documents contained in the special register to any person, including the person to whom a registration, order, judgment or decree applies.
24(2)The Registrar General may have a search made of the registrations in his office at the request of an issuer of marriage licences, or of a person authorized to perform marriages under the
Marriage Act, to determine whether the parties are within the forbidden degrees of consanguinity, where one of the parties is adopted.
24(3)Except as authorized by this section, the special register and any entry or information or documents contained therein shall not be made public or disclosed to any person except upon the order of a judge or the Attorney General.
24(4)A statement of original registration of birth issued by the Registrar General under this section in respect of an original registration of birth kept in the special register under subsection (1) shall contain at least the following particulars of the registration:
(a)
the name of the person;
(b)
the date of birth of the person;
(c)
the place of birth of the person;
(d)
the date of registration;
(e)
the registration number;
(f)
the names of the birth parents of the person; and
(g)
any other information prescribed by regulation.
24(5)The Minister of Social Development may require that the Registrar General issue a statement of original registration of birth and a copy of an order, judgment or decree kept in the special register under subsection (1) to a person named by the Minister of Social Development.
24(6)The Registrar General may disclose information relating to an adoption to the Minister of Social Development for the purposes of Part 7 of the
Child and Youth Well-Being Act.
1983, c.94, s.10; 1987, c.63, s.10; 1988, c.4, s.3; 1996, c.24, s.14; 2011, c.37, s.30; 2017, c.14, s.5; 2019, c.2, s.145; 2023, c.17, s.275; 2023, c.36, s.35