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The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
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These Regulations amend the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005 (“the 2005 Regulations”), which make provision under section 98 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 for the purposes of assisting persons adopted before the 30th December 2005 to obtain information about their adoption and to facilitate contact between those persons and their birth relatives.
Regulations 4 and 5 of the 2005 Regulations, which set out the services that an intermediary agency may provide and applications that such agencies may accept, are amended to provide that intermediary agencies may accept applications from a person with a prescribed relationship (as defined in new regulation 2A) to an adopted person for assistance in contacting a relative of an adopted person and vice versa (regulations 4 to 6).
Regulation 5A is inserted into the 2005 Regulations to prescribe the circumstances in which an intermediary agency must not proceed with an application and to set out the circumstances in which a veto registered under regulation 8 of the 2005 Regulations will apply (regulation 7).
Regulation 8 of the 2005 Regulations is amended to provide that an adopted person’s veto also applies when the subject of an application is a person with a prescribed relationship to the adopted person (regulation 8).
Regulation 9 of the 2005 Regulations is amended so that the 2005 Regulations do not prevent an intermediary agency from disclosing information that is not identifying information to an applicant if the agency considers it to be appropriate to do so (regulation 9).
Regulation 10 of the 2005 Regulations is amended to require an intermediary agency to provide written information about the availability of counselling to an adopted person who is considering whether to consent to an application proceeding (regulation 10).
Regulation 11 of the 2005 Regulations is amended to require an intermediary agency to take reasonable steps to confirm that the applicant does have a prescribed relationship when it receives an application from such a person (regulation 11).
Regulation 12 of the 2005 Regulations is amended to require the intermediary agency to ascertain from the appropriate adoption agency whether the adopted person has at any time expressed his views about contact and to require the intermediary agency to seek other information from the appropriate adoption agency (regulation 12).
Regulation 16 of the 2005 Regulations is amended to enable an intermediary agency to disclose information (including information that identifies any person) as is necessary to the adopted person to enable him to make an informed decision about whether to consent to an application proceeding (regulation 13).
A validation impact assessment of the effect that extending access to intermediary services will have is available alongside the Explanatory Memorandum for this instrument on www.legislation.gov.uk.
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