The provisions of Article 363 are applicable to a child who has been the subject of an adoption duly granted abroad having in France the effects of a simple adoption, where the adopted person’s birth certificate is kept by a French authority.
Adopters exercise the option open to them by this article by declaration addressed to the public prosecutor of the place where the birth record is kept at the time of the request to update it.
The chosen name shall be mentioned at the instance of the public prosecutor in the child’s birth record.