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PART 14PROCEDURE FOR APPLICATIONS IN ADOPTION, PLACEMENT AND RELATED PROCEEDINGS

Keeping registers in the family proceedings court

14.28.—(1) A magistrates’ court officer will keep a register in which there will be entered a minute or memorandum of every adjudication of the court in proceedings to which this Part applies.

(2) The register may be stored in electronic form on the court computer system and entries in the register will include, where relevant, the following particulars—

(a)the name and address of the applicant;

(b)the name of the child including, in adoption proceedings, the name of the child prior to, and after, adoption;

(c)the age and sex of the child;

(d)the nature of the application; and

(e)the minute of adjudication.

(3) The part of the register relating to adoption proceedings will be kept separately to any other part of the register and will—

(a)not contain particulars of any other proceedings; and

(b)be kept by the court in a place of special security.