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Section 80: Adoption Contact Register

Adoption and Children Act 2002 · 2002 c. 38View on legislation.gov.uk

Part 1: Adoption — Chapter 5: The Registers

The Registrar General must continue to maintain at the General Register Office in accordance with regulations a register in two Parts to be called the Adoption Contact Register.

Part 1 of the register is to contain the prescribed information about adopted persons who have given the prescribed notice expressing their wishes as to making contact with their relatives.

The Registrar General may only make an entry in Part 1 of the register for an adopted person—

a record of whose birth is kept by the Registrar General,
who has attained the age of 18 years, and
who the Registrar General is satisfied has such information as is necessary to enable him to obtain a certified copy of the record of his birth.

Part 2 of the register is to contain the prescribed information about persons who have given the prescribed notice expressing their wishes, as relatives of adopted persons, as to making contact with those persons.

The Registrar General may only make an entry in Part 2 of the register for a person—

who has attained the age of 18 years, and
who the Registrar General is satisfied is a relative of an adopted person and has such information as is necessary to enable him to obtain a certified copy of the record of the adopted person’s birth.

Regulations may provide for—

the disclosure of information contained in one Part of the register to persons for whom there is an entry in the other Part,
the payment of prescribed fees in respect of the making or alteration of entries in the register and the disclosure of information contained in the register.

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