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Whenever any document
registered under any law for the time being in force is produced before any court purporting to record an
adoption made and is signed by the person giving and the person taking the child in adoption, the court
shall presume that the adoption has been made in compliance with the provisions of this Act unless and
until it is disproved.STATE AMENDMENTSUttar Pradesh.–Amendment of section 16 of Act 78 of 1956.–In the Hindu Adaptation and Maintenance Act, 1956,
section 16 shall be re-numbered as sub-section (1) thereof, and after sub-section (1) as so re-numbered the
following sub-section shall be inserted namely:–“(2) In case any adoption made on or after the first day of January, 1977 no Court in Uttar Pradesh
shall accept any evidence in proof of the giving and taking of the child in adoption, except a document
recording an adoption, made and signed by the person giving and the person taking the child in adoption,
and registered under any law for the time being in force;Provided that secondary evidence of such document shall be admissible in the circumstances and the
manner laid down in the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872).”.[VideUttar Pradesh Act 57 of 1976, s. 35] Section 16 – The Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act
