Explanatory Notes

Adoption and Children Act 2002

2002 CHAPTER 38

7th November 2002

Commentary on Sections

Part 1 – Adoption

Chapter 5 - The Registers
Section 81: Adoption Contact Register: supplementary

213.Section 81 provides that the Adoption Contact Register is not to be open to public inspection or search. Section 81(2) defines relatives.  This definition will include, for example, parents, siblings, grandparents, great-grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, nephews and nieces including half blood or by marriage.