Short answer. Under RA 8552, yes, a child whose adoption had been previously rescinded was expressly listed as eligible to be adopted again. But RA 8552 has been repealed by Republic Act No. 11642 (2022), which moved domestic adoption to an administrative process under the National Authority for Child Care, so that listing is no longer the current governing text.
What the law says
The following may be adopted
RA 8552, Section 8 — Who May Be Adopted. Read the full provision →
What the law says
A child whose adoption has been previously rescinded
RA 8552, Section 8 — Who May Be Adopted. Read the full provision →
What the law says
A child whose biological or adoptive parent(s) has died
RA 8552, Section 8 — Who May Be Adopted. Read the full provision →
What the now-repealed RA 8552 used to provide
Section 8 of RA 8552 answered exactly this question, in the affirmative: the following may be adopted, and among the categories listed was a child whose adoption has been previously rescinded. Under that provision, a rescinded adoption did not disqualify a child from being adopted again; it was expressly named as one of the situations the old law recognized as eligible.
RA 8552 has been repealed
This is no longer the governing statute. Republic Act No. 8552 was repealed in its entirety by Republic Act No. 11642 (2022). Domestic adoption is no longer processed as a court petition the way RA 8552 described; RA 11642 created an administrative process instead, run through the National Authority for Child Care. So the eligibility list quoted above describes a framework that has since been replaced.
The other categories this item sat alongside, under the old law
RA 8552's list of who may be adopted was not limited to a child whose adoption had been rescinded. It also named minors declared available for adoption, a spouse's legitimate child adopted by the other spouse, an illegitimate child being legitimated through adoption, and a person of legal age long treated as the adopter's own child. Seeing the rescinded-adoption category alongside these others shows it was one recognized path among several, not an unusual exception.
What this means today
Because RA 8552 has been repealed, this article cannot tell you what the National Authority for Child Care currently requires for adopting a child whose earlier adoption was cancelled. What can be said with confidence is that the specific list quoted above is no longer the law being applied, and any adoption today proceeds under RA 11642's administrative process rather than the RA 8552 framework it replaced.
A related category under the old law, for context
RA 8552's list also separately named a child whose biological or adoptive parent(s) has died as its own eligible category, distinct from the rescinded-adoption ground. That the old law treated these as two separate, specifically named situations, rather than folding them into one broader category, shows how deliberately RA 8552 tried to cover the different real-life circumstances that leave a child needing a new adoptive family. Neither category is the current law today, but seeing them together shows the repealed statute took a rescinded adoption seriously enough to name it on its own.