{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-19",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-19.json",
  "legislation": "uksi/2005/888",
  "legislation_title": "The Disclosure of Adoption Information (Post-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005",
  "path": "regulation/19",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "19",
  "heading": "Seeking information from the Registrar General",
  "text": "(1) Where—\n(a) an adopted person who has attained the age of 18 years requests information from an adoption agency under section 60(2)(a) of the Act that would enable him to obtain a certified copy of the record of his birth; and\n(b) the agency does not have that information,\nthe agency must seek that information from the Registrar General.\n(2) Where an adoption agency seeks information from the Registrar General under paragraph (1) the agency must provide him in writing with the following information, so far as it is known—\n(a) the name, date of birth and country of birth of the adopted person;\n(b) the names of that person’s adoptive father and mother;\n(c) the date of the adoption order.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 19 in force at 30.12.2005, see reg. 1(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/2005/888/regulation/19",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T05:01:41.257094+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."
}