Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsWhere the registrar general receives, in relation to a child whose birth is registered in Queensland--
(a) a memorandum or copy of an adoption order made under the law in force in another State or in a Territory of the Commonwealth, or of an order discharging such an order certified in writing to be a true memorandum or copy by a person authorised so to certify under the law of that State or Territory; or
(b) an original or a copy of an order or record of adoption made in a country outside the Commonwealth and the Territories of the Commonwealth that has the same effect as an adoption order under this Act, or of a rescission of such an adoption, certified, in the case of a copy, in writing to be a true copy by a person having custody of the original thereof in that country;
the registrar general shall--
(c) register it, as prescribed, in the Adopted Children Register; and
(d) make such alterations to, or entries in, the appropriate registers of births as are prescribed.