Amendment of the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) (Wales) Regulations 2005

13.  In regulation 13 (obtaining information from Registrar General)—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) An intermediary agency may make a request in writing to the Registrar General for such of the following information as may assist it for the purposes of proceeding with an application under these Regulations—

(a) the identity of the appropriate adoption agency;

(b) details of the court that made the adoption order;

(c) information that he or she may hold that would enable an application to be made for a certificate from the Adopted Children Register;

(d) information from the Adoption Contact Register.”;

(b) for paragraph (2) substitute—

“(2) If an intermediary agency is proceeding with an application under regulation 5(1)(c), it may also make a request in writing to the Registrar General for such information that he or she may hold that would enable the adopted person to whom the applicant has a prescribed relationship to obtain a certified copy of the record of his or her birth.”.