Adoption Act 2000

An adoptive parent of an adopted person is entitled to receive (subject to this Act)—

the adopted person’s original birth certificate, and

the adopted person’s integrated birth certificate if a record of the adoption of the person is registered under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995, and

the adopted person’s adopted person’s birth record, and

any prescribed information relating to the adopted person held by an information source.

Despite subsection (1) (a), the adoptive parents of an intercountry adopted person are entitled to receive the adopted person’s original birth certificate only if such a certificate is held by an information source.

The adoptive parent is not entitled to receive the original birth certificate, integrated birth certificate or adopted person’s birth record unless the adopted person is 18 or more years old and consents to the adoptive parent receiving it.