Adoption Act 1976

6 Where an adoption order, other than a Convention adoption order, is revoked under section 52(1) or (2) the prescribed officer of the court shall cause the revocation to be communicated in the prescribed manner to the Registrar General who shall cause to be cancelled—

(a) the entry in the Adopted Children Register relating to the adopted person ; and

(b) the marking with the word " Adopted " (or, as the case may be, with that word and the word " (Scotland)") of any entry relating to him in the Registers of Births ;

and a copy or extract of an entry in any register, being an entry the marking of which is cancelled under this section, shall be deemed to be an accurate copy if and only if both the marking and the cancellation are omitted therefrom.