Prospective
Right of access to adoption agency recordsN.I.
107.—(1) Where a children’s court guardian has been appointed to act under section 106(1), the children’s court guardian has the right at all reasonable times to examine and take copies of any records of, or held by, an adoption agency which were compiled in connection with the making, or proposed making, by any person of any application under this Part in respect of the child concerned.
(2) Where a children’s court guardian takes a copy of any record which the children’s court guardian is entitled to examine under this section, that copy or any part of it is admissible as evidence of any matter referred to in any—
(a)report which the children’s court guardian makes to the court in the proceedings in question; or
(b)evidence which the children’s court guardian gives in those proceedings.
(3) Subsection (2) has effect regardless of any statutory provision or rule of law which would otherwise prevent the record in question being admissible in evidence.
Commencement Information
I1S. 107 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)