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  "long_title": "These Regulations make provision under section 98 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (“the Act”) for the purposes of assisting persons adopted before 30th December 2005 to obtain information about their adoption and to facilitate contact between those persons and their birth relatives. The regime for disclosure of information about adoptions on or after 30th December 2005 is set out in sections 56 to 65 of the Act and regulations under those sections.",
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