New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ADOPTION INFORMATION ACT 1990

- As at 4 November 2002
- Act 63 of 1990

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Long Title

   PART 1 - PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of Act
   2.      Commencement
   3.      Objects
   4.      Definitions
   5.      Prescribed information

   PART 2 - ACCESS TO BIRTH CERTIFICATES AND OTHER INFORMATION

   6.      Adopted person’s rights
   7.      Adoptive parent’s rights
   8.      Birth parent’s rights
   9.      Access to adoption information by relatives and others after death of adopted person or birth parent
   10.     Application for supply of birth certificate or prescribed information
   11.     Persons designated to deal with applications
   12.     Discretion to supply birth certificate or prescribed information
   12A.    Discretion to withhold supply (or authorise the withholding of supply), to supply information or to supply it subject to conditions
   13.     Guidelines for release of prescribed information etc
   14.     Access to court records
   15.     Unauthorised disclosure of information

   PART 2A - ADVANCE NOTICE

   15A.    Object of Part
   15B.    Definitions
   15C.    Who may lodge an advance notice request?
   15D.    How advance notice request is lodged
   15E.    Advance Notice Register
   15F.    Primary information source to delay issue of supply authority or prescribed information
   15G.    Endorsement of details of advance notice request
   15H.    Expiration of advance notice registration
   15I.    Arrangements to waive advance notice period
   15J.    Notification to person who lodged advance notice request

   PART 3 - CONTACT VETOES

   16.     Adopted person or birth parent may lodge contact veto
   17.     Contact veto may be lodged only for adoptions before this Act
   18.     How contact veto is lodged
   19.     Contact Veto Register
   20.     Director-General to advise primary information source
   21.     Primary information source to endorse details of contact veto on birth certificate
   22.     When contact veto takes effect
   23.     Expiration of contact veto
   24.     Arrangements to confirm, cancel or vary contact veto at request of person seeking contact
   25.     Notification to person who lodged contact veto of request for information
   26.     Notification to person affected by contact veto of cancellation or variation
   27.     Undertakings not to contact person who has lodged contact veto
   28.     Veto on contact—offences
   29.     (Repealed)

   PART 4 - REUNION AND INFORMATION REGISTER

   30.     Definition
   31.     Reunion and Information Register
   31A.    Message may be left
   31B.    Director-General may refuse to enter name or take message
   31C.    Circumstances in which Director-General may open, inspect and copy message
   31D.    Director-General may delay delivery or message
   31E.    Regulations
   32.     Persons eligible to have their names entered in the register
   33.     Arrangements for reunion of registered persons
   34.     Location of persons not registered

   PART 5 - MISCELLANEOUS

   35.     Fees and charges
   35A.    Internal review
   36.     Decisions that are reviewable by Administrative Decisions Tribunal
   36A.    Entitlements of disabled persons
   37.     Manner of giving notice
   38.     False statement in application etc
   39.     Impersonation
   40.     Proceedings for offences
   41.     Regulations
   42.     Repeal of regulations relating to Adopted Persons Contact Register
   43.     (Repealed)
   44.     Savings, transitional and other provisions
           Schedule 1 (Repealed)
           SCHEDULE 2