Part 1Adoption

F1CHAPTER 1AScotland's Adoption Register

13CSupply of information for the Register

(1)

An adoption agency must provide the Scottish Ministers with such information as may be prescribed in regulations made under section 13A(2) about—

(a)

children who it considers ought to be placed for adoption or persons who were included in the Register as such children,

(b)

persons who it considers as suitable to have a child placed with them for adoption or persons who were included in the Register as such persons.

(2)

Regulations made under section 13A(2) may—

(a)

provide that information is to be provided to a registration organisation in pursuance of subsection (1) instead of to the Scottish Ministers,

(b)

provide for how and by when information is to be provided in pursuance of subsection (1),

(c)

prescribe circumstances in which an adoption agency, despite subsection (1), is not to disclose information of the type prescribed for the purposes of that subsection.