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ADOPTION OF CHILDREN ACT 1964 - SECT 39C

39C Entitlement to certain records etc.

(1) An adoptive person, adoptive parent, birth parent, or relative who has received information in respect of a person under section 39B, or has participated in a reunion pursuant to section 39G (being section 39G repealed by the Adoption of Children Act Amendment Act 1990), shall be entitled to receive from the registrar general, upon presentation to the registrar general of an authorisation supplied by the chief executive and payment of the fees prescribed under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003--

(a) if he or she is an adopted person or an adoptive parent--a certified copy of the entry related to the adopted person as recorded in the Register of Births, endorsed 'Not to be used for official purposes';
(b) if he or she is a birth parent or a relative--
(i) a certified copy of the adoption entry of the adopted person; and
(ii) a certified copy of the entry related to the adopted person as recorded in the Register of Births, endorsed 'Not to be used for official purposes'; and
(iii) if the adopted person's adoption has been reregistered under the Registration of Births, Deaths and Marriages Act 1962 and 1 or more changes of the person's name have been entered in the Adopted Children Register after the reregistration--a certified copy of the reregistered adoption entry.

(2) Subsection (1)(b)(i) applies even if the adoption entry is closed under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2003, section 14, and access to it is restricted under section 55A of this Act.



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