{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-128",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-128.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/38",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002",
  "path": "section/128",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "128",
  "heading": "Supply of information for the register",
  "text": "(1) Regulations may require adoption agencies to give prescribed information to the Secretary of State or the registration organisation for entry in the register.\n(2) Information is to be given to the Secretary of State or the registration organisation when required by regulations and in the prescribed form and manner.\n(3) Regulations may require an agency giving information which is entered on the register to pay a prescribed fee to the Secretary of State or the registration organisation.\n(4) But an adoption agency is not to disclose any information to the Secretary of State or the registration organisation—\n(a) about prospective adopters who are suitable to adopt a child, or persons who were included in the register as such prospective adopters, without their consent,\n(b) about children suitable for adoption or for whom a local authority in England are considering adoption, or persons who were included in the register as such children, without the consent of the prescribed person.\n(5) Consent under subsection (4) is to be given in the prescribed form.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Ss. 125-131 cease to have effect (S.) (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 1 para. 11(1); S.I. 2014/889, art. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Word in s. 128(1) substituted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 1 para. 5(2); S.I. 2014/889, art. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Word in s. 128(2) substituted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 1 para. 5(3); S.I. 2014/889, art. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in s. 128(3) substituted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), s. 139(6), Sch. 1 para. 5(4); S.I. 2014/889, art. 5(f)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in s. 128(4)(b) inserted (13.5.2014) by Children and Families Act 2014 (c. 6), ss. 7(3), 139(6); S.I. 2014/889, art. 5(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 128 in force at 25.7.2014 by S.I. 2014/1961, art. 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/38/section/128",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T09:18:55.944329+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."
}