Amendment of the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) Regulations 200513

In regulation 13 (obtaining information from Registrar General)—

a

for paragraph (1) substitute—

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 that he or she may hold that would enable an application to be made for a certificate from the Adopted Children Register;

d

information from the Adoption Contact Register.

b

for paragraph (2) substitute—

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 that he or she may hold that would enable the adopted person to whom the applicant has a prescribed relationship to obtain a certified copy of the record of his or her birth.