Section 20Sec./Art. 20

Biological Parent Search. It shall be the duty of the NACC, LGU, or the child-placing or the child-caring agency, which has custody of a child to exert all efforts using tri-media and any other possible means to locate the biological parents of the child and seek their consent. If such effort fail, the child shall, if applicable, be registered as a foundling and subsequently be the subject of administrative proceedings where said child shall be declared abandoned: Provided, That if the adoptee is an adult, the biological parent search is at the discretion of the adoptee.