The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005

Applications that may be accepted U.K.

5.— [F1 (1) Subject to paragraph (3) an intermediary agency may accept an application from—

(a) an adopted person for assistance in contacting a relative of his;

(b) a relative of an adopted person for assistance in contacting—

(i) the adopted person; or

(ii) a person with a prescribed relationship to the adopted person; or

(c) a person with a prescribed relationship to an adopted person for assistance in contacting a relative of an adopted person.]

F2 (2) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

(3) The applicant and the person with whom the applicant seeks contact (“the subject”) must be aged 18 or over.

Textual Amendments

F1 Reg. 5(1) substituted (31.10.2014) by The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2696), regs. 1, 6(a)

F2 Reg. 5(2) omitted (31.10.2014) by virtue of The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/2696), regs. 1, 6(b)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 5 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)