Access to information from register of adoptions
24 Access to information from register of adoptions
The registrar-general must only allow a person to have access to the register of adoptions or to any memorandum or copy of an adoption order or an order discharging an adoption order—
in accordance with an order of the court; or
if the registrar-general is satisfied that the access is properly required for the purpose of providing evidence in proceedings under the Family Law Act 1975 (Cwlth); or
under this section.
On application by an adopted person born in a foreign country or by an adoptive parent of such an adopted person, the registrar-general must issue the applicant with a certificate in the form of an entry in the register of births.
The applicant must provide, in writing, any additional information required by the registrar-general to issue the certificate.
In this section:
access, in relation to the register of adoptions or a memorandum or copy of an adoption order or an order discharging an adoption order, includes—
inspection of the register or the memorandum or copy; and
for the register—provision of an extract from the register; and
for a memorandum of an order or a copy of a memorandum of an order—provision of a copy of, or an extract from the memorandum or copy.
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