Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1993 - SECT 78

    (1)     The chief executive must establish and maintain an adoption information register.

    (2)     The register must contain—

        (a)     the names and addresses of—

              (i)     adopted persons; and

              (ii)     birth parents of adopted persons; and

              (iii)     birth relatives of adopted persons; and

              (iv)     adoptive parents;

who have, in writing, requested the chief executive to enter their names and addresses in the register; and

        (b)     in relation to each person so registered, notations recording the wishes of any such person about to—

              (i)     obtaining identifying information about, or contacting or providing information to; or

              (ii)     whether or not to release the name, address or any information about the person to;

another person whose name is, or may in the future be, entered in the adoption information register.

    (3)     The chief executive must, on the written request of a person whose name is entered in the adoption information register, amend or cancel the entry relating to that person.