The Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers Regulations 2005

This statutory instrument has been printed in substitution of the SI of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.

Statutory Instruments

2005 No. 924

REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES

The Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers Regulations 2005

Made

24th March 2005

Laid before Parliament

29th March 2005

Coming into force

30th December 2005

The Registrar General in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 51(1) and (2) and 67(1), (2), (5) and (6) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 3(2) to (4) of Schedule 1 to, the Adoption Act 1976(1) and sections 78(3), 79(5), (7) and (8), 80(2), (4) and (6), 142(7) and 144(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 3(3) to (5) of Schedule 1 and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002(2), as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993(3), with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

(1)

1976 c. 36.

(2)

2002 c. 38. In sections 78(3) and 79(9) of, and paragraphs 1 and 3 of Schedule 1 and paragraph 1 of Schedule 2 to, the Act “prescribed” means prescribed by regulations made by the Registrar General with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and in section 80 “regulations” means regulations made by the Registrar General with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer and “prescribed” means prescribed by such regulations (see section 81(4) of the Act).

(3)

1993 c. 38.