Valid from 30/12/2005
(1)Each adoption agency must give to the appropriate Minister any statistical or other general information he requires about—
(a)its performance of all or any of its functions relating to adoption,
(b)the children and other persons in relation to whom it has exercised those functions.
(2)The following persons—
(a)the [F1designated officer] for each magistrates’ court,
(b)the relevant officer of each county court,
(c)the relevant officer of the High Court,
must give to the appropriate Minister any statistical or other general information he requires about the proceedings under this Act of the court in question.
(3)In subsection (2), “relevant officer”, in relation to a county court or the High Court, means the officer of that court who is designated to act for the purposes of that subsection by a direction given by the Lord Chancellor.
(4)The information required to be given to the appropriate Minister under this section must be given at the times, and in the form, directed by him.
(5)The appropriate Minister may publish from time to time abstracts of the information given to him under this section.
Textual Amendments
F1Words in s. 13(2) substituted (1.4.2005) by Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), s. 110(1), Sch. 8 para. 411; S.I. 2005/910, art. 3(y)