Adoptive parents of minors require a court order to obtain a complete birth certificate of their child.

This was another legal anomaly that placed adoptive parents in a different legal situation to natural ones, burdening them with additional financial expenses, and the law should be changed, Labour MP Justyne Caruana said.

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