(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 RegistrarGeneral 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. (6) A certified copy of any entry in the Adopted Children Register, if purporting to be marked with the official stamp of the Registrar-General, shall, without any further or other proof of such entry— (a) where the entry does not contain any record of the date of the birth of the Adopted child, be received as evidence of the adoption to which the same relates; and (b) where the entry contains a record of the date of the birth of the adopted child, be received, not only as evidence of the adoption to which the same relates, but also as evidence of the date of the birth of the adopted child to which the same relates in all respects as though the same were a certified copy of any entry in a register of births kept by the Registrar-General. (7) The Registrar-General shall cause an index of the Adopted Children Register to be made and any person authorized by the Minister may search such index and have a certified copy of any entry in the Adopted Children Register on payment of the prescribed fee. (8) The Registrar-General shall, in addition to the Adopted Children Register and the index thereof, keep such other registers and make such entries therein as may be necessary to record and make traceable the connection between any entry in a register of births kept by him that has been marked “Adopted”, in terms of this section, and