# The Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers Regulations 2005, Introduction: Introductory text


This statutory instrument has been printed in substitution of the SI of the same number and is being issued free of charge to all known recipients of that Statutory Instrument.
REGISTRATION OF BIRTHS, DEATHS, MARRIAGES, ETC., ENGLAND AND WALES
Made 24th March 2005
Laid before Parliament 29th March 2005
Coming into force 30th December 2005
The Registrar General in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sections 51(1) and (2) and 67(1), (2), (5) and (6) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 3(2) to (4) of Schedule 1 to, the Adoption Act 1976 and sections 78(3), 79(5), (7) and (8), 80(2), (4) and (6), 142(7) and 144(2) of, and paragraphs 1(1) and 3(3) to (5) of Schedule 1 and paragraph 1(1) of Schedule 2 to, the Adoption and Children Act 2002, as extended by section 26(3) of the Welsh Language Act 1993, with the approval of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, hereby makes the following Regulations:–

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/924/introduction (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/introduction
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