Adoption Regulation 2015

A birth parent of an adopted person is entitled to receive—

any non-identifying background information held by an information source about an adopted person or his or her adoptive parents that will give the birth parent knowledge of the adopted person’s life, and

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

birth details of the adopted person (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),

a copy of the instrument of consent to the adoption and any associated documents relating to the social and medical history of the adopted person provided by a birth parent,

a copy of the request by the consenting birth parent to make arrangements for the adoption,

copies of reports of medical examinations of the adopted person carried out before the adoption order was made,

any document certifying particulars of the marriage or death of the adopted person,

any message given to the information source for the birth parent if clause 112 is complied with,

any other document, report, photograph or recording relating to the adopted person’s life.

Information relating to the health and welfare of an adopted person after placement for adoption is non-identifying background information for the purposes of subclause (1) only if—

the information source holding the information is the Department or an accredited adoption service provider, or

the information is information referred to in clause 104 (1).

A birth parent is entitled to receive any of the following information if it is held by the Department or accredited adoption service provider—

advice of the death of the adopted person,

advice that the relationship between the adopted person and the adoptive parents has irretrievably broken down and the adopted person is living separately from the adoptive parents.

Despite subclauses (1) and (3), a birth parent is not entitled to receive information that identifies any other person unless the birth parent is otherwise entitled to receive the information under the Act or an access policy.