Section 16 of the Hindu Adoptions and Maintenance Act, 1956 relates to :

Section 16 creates a rebuttable presumption of law. When the qualifying registered adoption document is produced and bears the signatures of the person giving and the person taking the child, the court must presume compliance with the Act until the contrary is proved. It is therefore neither irrebuttable nor merely a discretionary factual inference, and it does not prevent contrary evidence.