Section 12Sec./Art. 12

Civil Registry Record. - The Secretary shall immediately transmit the order of adoption to the concerned DSWD Regional Office, which shall in turn provide copies to the petitioners, the concerned agencies and the appropriate local civil registrar.

The Local Civil Registrar shall stamp the simulated birth record "cancelled" with an annotation of the issuance of a new rectified certificate of birth in its place. The rectified birth certificate bearing the names of the biological parents of the child or the foundling certificate shall then likewise be stamped "cancelled" with the annotation of the issuance of a new birth record in its place, and shall be sealed in the civil registry records. Thereafter, the Local Civil Registrar shall record, register, and issue a new certificate of birth which shall not bear any notation that it is a new or amended issue.