159.— The Civil Registration Act 2004 is amended—

(a) in section 2—

(i) in subsection (1)—

(I) by deleting the definitions of “adoption” and “foreign adoption”,

(II) in the definition of “event”, to delete the references to adoption and foreign adoption,

(III) by deleting paragraph (c) of the definition of “registrar”, and

(IV) by deleting paragraphs (c) and (d) of the definition of “the required particulars”,

(ii) in subsection (3)(a), by deleting “adoption, foreign adoption,”,

(b) in section 8—

(i) in subsection (1)(a), by deleting “adoptions,”,

(ii) in subsection (2), by substituting “deaths and marriages” for “deaths, marriages, adoptions and foreign adoptions”,

(iii) in subsection (4), by inserting “, including his or her functions under Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Adoption Act 2010” after “the performance of his or her functions”,

(iv) in subsection (5), by inserting “, including his or her functions under Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Adoption Act 2010” after “the performance of his or her functions”, and

(v) in subsection (6), by inserting “, including his or her functions under Chapter 1 of Part 10 of the Adoption Act 2010” after “such of his or her functions”,

(c) by deleting subsections (1)(c) and (5) of section 13,

(d) in section 61, by substituting the following for subsection (3):

“(3) This section does not apply to the register of stillbirths or an index to that register or an index kept under—

(a) section 22(5) of the Adoption Act 1952, or

(b) section 86 of the Adoption Act 2010.”,

(e) in section 73—

(i) in subsection (1), by substituting the following for paragraphs (f) to (h):

“(f) decrees of nullity, or

(g) any other prescribed matters.”,

(ii) in subsection (3)(a), by substituting “decree of divorce or decree of nullity” for “decree of divorce, decree of nullity or adoption” in both places where it occurs, and

(iii) in subsection (7), by substituting “decree of divorce or decree of nullity” for “decree of divorce, decree of nullity or adoption”,

(f) in the First Schedule, by deleting Parts 3 and 4, and

(g) in the Second Schedule, by deleting the references to the enactments specified in Schedule 4 .