PART 14PROCEDURE FOR APPLICATIONS IN ADOPTION, PLACEMENT AND RELATED PROCEEDINGS

Keeping registers in the family proceedings court14.28

1

A magistrates’ court officer will keep a register in which there will be entered a minute or memorandum of every adjudication of the court in proceedings to which this Part applies.

2

The register may be stored in electronic form on the court computer system and entries in the register will include, where relevant, the following particulars—

a

the name and address of the applicant;

b

the name of the child including, in adoption proceedings, the name of the child prior to, and after, adoption;

c

the age and sex of the child;

d

the nature of the application; and

e

the minute of adjudication.

3

The part of the register relating to adoption proceedings will be kept separately to any other part of the register and will—

a

not contain particulars of any other proceedings; and

b

be kept by the court in a place of special security.