Adoption and Children Act (Northern Ireland) 2022

Prospective

Adoption Contact Register: supplementaryN.I.
This section has no associated Explanatory Notes

80.—(1) The Adoption Contact Register is not to be open to public inspection or search.

(2) In section 79, “relative”, in relation to an adopted person, means any person who (but for the adopted person’s adoption) would be related to the adopted person by blood (including half-blood), marriage or civil partnership.

(3) The Registrar General must not give any information entered in the register to any person except in accordance with subsection (6)(a) of that section or regulations made by virtue of section 63(4)(b).

Commencement Information

I1S. 80 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)