Section 65: Sections 56 to 65: Interpretation
187.Section 65(1) defines some of the terms used in sections 56 to 65. Subsections (2)(a) and (b) set out the circumstances in which Scottish Ministers or the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland are to make regulations. Subsection (3) enables Scottish Ministers or the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety in Northern Ireland, when they make regulations under section 63(2), to make supplementary, transitional and other provision. Subsection (4) provides that the Chancellor of the Exchequer must approve any regulations that set out a fee for payment by an adoption agency to the Registrar General for his disclosure of information from the Adoption Contact Register. Subsection (5) provides that the Registrar General must approve any regulations about the way in which applications to him for the disclosure of information are made.
