Cap. 540 Art. 4AChange of gender identity of adopted persons.

(1) The Court which would have issued the court decree of adoption may, on an application of an adopting person in the case of a minor or an adopted person, amend the decree by changing the gender of the person and the name if the person chooses to change his name; and when such decree is so amended, the Court Registrar shall see that the amendment is communicated to the Director within fifteen days from the delivery of such decree; and every correction or addition in the Register of Adopted Persons or the deletion of the registration marker on the register of acts of birth or the Register of Adopted Persons that is needed shall be made in that manner: Provided that before the end of the fifteen days from the award of the amending decree, the adopted person shall make a public declaratory act in accordance with article 5 that reflects the changes ordered in the Court decree.

(2) When the adoption decree is amended every authenticated copy of the relative registration in the Register of Adopted Persons that can be issued by virtue of article 269(5) of the Civil Code shall be a copy of the registration so amended, without the reproduction of any note or marker of the amendment or something which has been deleted by virtue of such power; and every authentic copy of registration in any registry that is a registration the marker of which has been deleted shall be considered as an exact copy only if the marker and also the deletion are not shown therein.