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ADOPTION INFORMATION ACT 1990 - SECT 3 Objects

This legislation has been repealed.

ADOPTION INFORMATION ACT 1990 - SECT 3

Objects

3 Objects

The objects of this Act are:

(a) to give adult adopted persons greater access to information concerning their origins, and
(b) to give the birth parents and adoptive parents of adult adopted persons greater access to information concerning their children, and
(c) to preserve controls adoptive parents have over the access of adopted children to information concerning their origins while recognising the paramount interests of adopted children, and
(d) to give the relatives of adopted persons, birth parents and other persons access to information concerning adopted persons' origins in special circumstances, and
(e) to protect the privacy of adopted persons and birth parents by establishing a system of vetoes against contact with persons identified through access to information concerning persons adopted before the date of assent to this Act, and
(f) to limit the disclosure of information concerning the personal affairs of persons that might unduly intrude on their privacy, and
(g) to make provision for a Reunion and Information Register to facilitate reunions between adopted persons, birth parents and other persons (if desired by the persons concerned) and to facilitate exchange of messages between persons concerned in or affected by an adoption.