This section applies where—
The agency is not required to proceed with the application unless it considers it appropriate to do so.
If the agency does proceed with the application, then, so far as the information is about a person who is at the time a child, the agency must take all reasonable steps to obtain—
as to the disclosure of the information.
And, so far as the information is about a person who has at the time attained the age of 18 years, the agency must take all reasonable steps to obtain his views as to the disclosure of the information.
The agency may then disclose the information if it considers it appropriate to do so.
In deciding whether it is appropriate to proceed with the application, or disclose the information, where any of the information is about a person who is at the time a child—
And, in deciding whether it is appropriate to proceed with the application or disclose the information, the agency must consider—
and all the other circumstances of the case.
This section does not apply to a request for information under section 60(2) or to a request for information which the agency is authorised or required to disclose in pursuance of regulations made by virtue of section 57(6).