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Amendments to the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005

6.  For regulation 13 (obtaining information from the Registrar General) substitute—

13.(1) An intermediary agency may make a request in writing to the Registrar General for such of the following information as may assist it for the purposes of proceeding with an application under these Regulations—

(a)the identity of the appropriate adoption agency;

(b)details of the court that made the adoption order;

(c)information the Registrar General may hold that would enable an application to be made for a certified copy of an entry in the Adopted Children Register;

(d)information from the Adoption Contact Register.

(2) If an intermediary agency is proceeding with an application under regulation 5(1)(c), it may also make a request in writing to the Registrar General for such information as the Registrar General may hold that would enable the adopted person with whom the applicant has a prescribed relationship to obtain a certified copy of the adopted person’s record of birth..