Adoption Act 1988

A person who – conducts any arrangement for or relating to the adoption of a child in respect of whose adoption a general consent has been given; or signs, or files in a court, any document relating to the hearing of an application for an adoption order; or appears before a court in connection with the hearing of such an application – shall, so far as is practicable, take such steps as are necessary to ensure that the identities of the child and his natural parents are not revealed to the adoptive parents and that the identities of the adoptive parents are not revealed to the natural parents of the child.

Subsection (1) does not prevent the disclosure of identities of persons referred to in that subsection in a case where that disclosure is authorized in writing by the adoptive parents or prospective adoptive parents, as the case may be, and each of the persons who has signed a consent to the adoption.