CHILDREN’S PROTECTION AND ADOPTION ACT (as amended at 01 December 2002) 68 No consideration in connection with adoption permitted 60 If any person or agent of that person who has obtained or applied for an adoption order gives or undertakes to give or, except with the consent of the court which made the order or to which application for the order is made, receives or contracts to receive any consideration in respect of the adoption, or if any parent or legal guardian of a minor receives or contracts to receive or, save with such consent as aforesaid, gives or undertakes to give any consideration in respect of the adoption, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. 69 Concealment of identity of adopted child (1) No person shall at any time publish any information likely to reveal the identity of the parent or adopter of any adopted child normally resident in Zimbabwe or, except with the consent in writing of the adopter or of the adopted child if such adopted child is over the age of eighteen years, the fact that such adopted child has been adopted: Provided that if the Minister is of the opinion that such publication would be just and equitable and in the interests of any particular person he may by written order dispense with the prohibition of this subsection to such an extent as may be specified in the order. (2)61 Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and liable to a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and such imprisonment. 70 Adopted Children Register (1) The Registrar-General shall keep and maintain a register to be called the “Adopted Children Register” in which entries shall be made in accordance with this Act. (2) Every adoption order shall contain a direction to the Register-General to make in the Adopted Children Register an entry regarding the adoption in the form prescribed. (3) Where upon any application for an adoption order there is proved to the satisfaction of the court— (a) the date of the birth of the minor; and (b) the fact that the minor is the same person in respect of whom an entry or entries have been made in a register of births kept by the Registrar-General; the adoption order shall contain a further direction to the Registrar-General to cause the entries in the register of births kept by him relating to such minor to be marked with the word “Adopted”, and to include in the entry in the Adopted Children Register in the manner prescribed the date of the child’s birth stated in the adoption order. (4) The court shall cause every adoption order to be communicated to the Registrar-General and, upon receipt of such communication, the Registrar-General shall cause compliance to be made with the directions contained in the order in regard both to marking any entry in a register of births kept by him with the word “Adopted” and in regard to making the appropriate entry in the Adopted Children Register. (5) Upon an application in chambers being made to a judge of the High Court in respect of a person who was born in Zimbabwe and adopted in a foreign country according to the law of that country, the judge may, if he is satisfied— (a) that the adoption may be recognized in Zimbabwe; and (b) that the adopted person is the same person in respect of whom an entry or entries have been made in a register of births kept by the Registrar-General; order the Registrar-General to cause the entry or entries in the register of births kept by him relating to such adopted person to be marked with the word “Adopted” and to include in the Adopted Children Register an entry relating to the Adopted person with— (i) the endorsement “Foreign Adoption”; (ii) a reference to the order of the judge and the date and references thereof; (iii) such other particulars concerning the name, sex and date of birth of the Adopted person and of the surname, address and occupation of the adopter or adopters as the judge may specify in the order. 36