Section 55 Information to be kept about a person’s adoptionI1
Northern Ireland Not yet in force
(1)
In relation to an adopted person, regulations may prescribe—
(a)
the information which an adoption agency must keep in relation to the adoption;
(b)
the form and manner in which it must keep that information.
(2)
Below in this group of sections (that is, this section and sections 56 to 64), any information kept by an adoption agency by virtue of subsection (1)(a) is referred to as section 55 information.
(3)
Regulations may provide for the transfer in prescribed circumstances of information held, or previously held, by an adoption agency to another adoption agency.
Annotations
Commencement
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S. 55 not in operation at Royal Assent, see s. 160(1)