{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/regulation-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005/regulation-8.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/924",
  "legislation_title": "The Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adopted-children-and-adoption-contact-registers-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/8",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Notification of link",
  "text": "The Registrar General shall give an adopted person whose name is in Part 1 of the Adoption Contact Register, the name, in writing, of any relative of his whose name is in Part 2 of that Register and who has asked for contact with that adopted person, together with the address at or through which the relative may be contacted.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "In accordance with section 81(3) of the Act the Registrar General must not give any information entered in the register to any person except in accordance with these Regulations or regulations made under section 64(4)(b) of the Act."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/924/regulation/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:00.634076+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}