Regulation 13 Obtaining information from Registrar General
If, in any of the cases mentioned in paragraph (2), the intermediary agency has not obtained from the appropriate adoption agency sufficient information for the purposes mentioned in regulation 12(4)(c), the intermediary agency may request from the Registrar General such of the following information as may assist it for those purposes—
information that he or she may hold that would enable an application to be made for a certificate from the Adopted Children Register;
information from the Adoption Contact Register.
The cases mentioned in paragraph (1) are—
where the intermediary agency is unable to identify the appropriate adoption agency or ascertains that no adoption agency was involved in the adoption;
where the intermediary agency contacts the appropriate adoption agency and ascertains that it does not hold the necessary information.
Where the intermediary agency is the appropriate adoption agency and does not hold sufficient information for the purposes mentioned in regulation 12(4)(c) it may request from the Registrar General such of the information mentioned in paragraph (1)(a) and (b) as may assist it for those purposes.