ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 94 Adopted person's right to information under age eighteen
ADOPTION ACT 1984 - SECT 94
Adopted person's right to information under age eighteen(1) An adopted person who has not attained the age of eighteen years may make application to a relevant authority for—
S. 94(1)(a) amended by No.
46/1998
s. 7(Sch. 1).
(a) information about the adopted person (other than information from which the identity of either of the natural parents of the adopted person may be ascertained, whether directly or indirectly) from the records of the relevant authority, or, where the application is made to the Secretary, from the records of the Secretary, an agency, another body or a person; and
S. 94(1)(b) amended by No.
46/1998
s. 7(Sch. 1).
(b) subject to subsection (2), information from the records of the relevant authority, or, where the application is made to the Secretary, from the records of the Secretary, an agency, another body or a person, being information about the adopted person from which the identity of either of the natural parents of the adopted person may be ascertained.
S. 94(2) amended by No. 67/1987 s. 12(b).
(2) An application for information referred to in paragraph (a) or (b) of subsection (1) shall be accompanied by the agreement in writing, or evidence of the death, of each adoptive parent of the adopted person or the agreement in writing of the guardian of the adopted person (if the guardian is not an adoptive parent).
(3) There shall not be given to an applicant under this section any information to which paragraph (b) of subsection (1) applies from which the identity of a natural parent of the applicant may be ascertained unless the relevant authority has obtained the agreement in writing, or evidence of the death of, that natural parent.