Registration of adoptee’s birth, who has right of access to
85 Registration of adoptee’s birth, who has right of access to
Subject to section 82(2), no persons other than the following persons have the right to have access to the registration of an adoptee’s birth —
the adoptee;
a birth parent of the adoptee;
an adoptive parent of the adoptee;
a sibling of the adoptee, if both the sibling and the adoptee are 18 or more years of age.
Subsection (1) has effect subject to —
production to the Registrar, of the authority under section 82(2) to allow access to the information; and
the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998 in relation to the manner of application for access to information held by the Registrar; and
sections 89 and 90.
The production to the Registrar of the authority referred to in subsection (2)(a) is to be treated as an adequate reason, for the purposes of section 54 or 55 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1998, for the Registrar —
to allow a person access to the Register; or
to provide a person with information extracted from the Register; or
to search for information in the Register,
within the meaning of that Act.
[Section 85 amended: No. 40 of 1998 s. 6(7), (8) and (9); No. 15 of 2012 s. 51.]
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