17.—(1) Where —
(a)an adopted person who has attained the age of 18 years requests information from an adoption agency under section 60(2)(a) of the Act, which would enable him or her to obtain a certified copy of the record of his or her birth; and
(b)the agency does not have that information,
the agency must seek that information from the Registrar General.
(2) Where an adoption agency seeks information from the Registrar General under paragraph (1) the agency must provide the Registrar General in writing with the following information, so far as it is known—
(a)the name, date of birth and country of birth of the adopted person;
(b)the names of that person’s adoptive father or mother;
(c)the date of the adoption order.
18.—(1) The Registrar General must —
(a)disclose to any person (including an adopted person) at his or her request any information that the person requires to assist him or her to make contact with the adoption agency which is the appropriate adoption agency in the case of the person specified in the request (or, as the case may be in the applicant’s case); and
(b)disclose to the appropriate adoption agency any information that the agency requires, in relation to an application under section 60, 61 or 62 of the Act, about any entry relating to an adopted person on the Adoption Contact Register(1).
(2) The adoption agency must pay any fee that the Registrar General determines is reasonable for the disclosure of information under paragraph (1)(b).
(3) In this regulation “appropriate adoption agency” has the same meaning given by section 65(1) of the Act.
For the definition of “Adoption Contact Register” see s.80 of the Act.