{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-58",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002/section-58.json",
  "legislation": "ukpga/2002/38",
  "legislation_title": "Adoption and Children Act 2002",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/adoption-and-children-act-2002",
  "path": "section/58",
  "kind": "section",
  "number": "58",
  "heading": "Disclosure of other information",
  "text": "(1) This section applies to any section 56 information other than protected information.\n(2) An adoption agency may for the purposes of its functions disclose to any person in accordance with prescribed arrangements any information to which this section applies.\n(3) An adoption agency must, in prescribed circumstances, disclose prescribed information to a prescribed person.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "S. 58 in force at 7.12.2004 for specified purposes for E. by S.I. 2004/3203, art. 2(1)(m)(v)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I2",
      "text": "S. 58 in force at 30.12.2005 for E. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/2213, art. 3(k) (with savings and transitional provisions in S.I. 2005/2897, arts. 3-16)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I3",
      "text": "S. 58(1) in force at 30.12.2005 for W. by S.I. 2005/3112, art. 2(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I4",
      "text": "S. 58(2)(3) in force at 7.2.2004 for specified purposes for W. by S.I. 2004/252, art. 2(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I5",
      "text": "S. 58(2)(3) in force at 30.12.2005 for W. in so far as not already in force by S.I. 2005/3112, art. 2(e)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2002/38/section/58",
    "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."
}