Adoption Regulation 2015

An adoptive parent of an adopted person is entitled to receive—

any non-identifying background information held by an information source about a birth parent, sibling, grandparent, aunt or uncle of the adopted person that will give the adoptive parent knowledge of the adopted person’s origins, and

any of the following information about the adopted person held by an information source—

birth details (including the time of birth and weight and length at birth),

date on which the adopted person was placed with the adoptive parents,

date of the adoption order,

a copy of the adoption order or memorandum of adoption (or both),

the reason an adoption decision was made by the birth parents for the adopted person (as stated by the birth parents or recorded by the information source before the adoption order was made),

any message given to the information source for the adopted person or adoptive parents if clause 112 is complied with,

any other document, report, photograph or recording relating to the adopted person that contains information about his or her origins.

Despite subclause (1), an adoptive parent is not entitled to receive information that identifies any other person unless the adoptive parent is otherwise entitled to receive the information under the Act or an access policy.