Section 29: Registration of adoption order

(1) An adoption order made by a court of competent jurisdiction in Nigeria shall contain a direction to the Registrar-General to make in the register maintained pursuant to subsection (2) of this section an entry specifying such particulars as may be prescribed.
(2) The Registrar-General shall maintain a register to be called "Adopted Children's Register" in which shall be made such entries as may be directed to be made therein by adoption orders.