Regulation 6 Amendment of the Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005

In regulation 5 (applications that may be accepted)—

(a)

for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1)
Subject to paragraph (3) an intermediary agency may accept an application from—

(a)
an adopted person for assistance in contacting a relative of his;

(b)
a relative of an adopted person for assistance in contacting—

(i)
the adopted person; or

(ii)
a person with a prescribed relationship to the adopted person; or

(c)
a person with a prescribed relationship to an adopted person for assistance in contacting a relative of an adopted person.”; and

(b)

omit paragraph (2).