{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-20",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/disclosure-of-adoption-information-post-commencement-adoptions-regulations-2005/regulation-20.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/20",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "20",
  "heading": "Registrar General to disclose information regarding the appropriate adoption agency and the Adoption Contact Register",
  "text": "(1) The Registrar General must—\n(a) disclose to any person (including an adopted person) at his request any information that the person requires to assist him to make contact with the adoption agency which is the appropriate adoption agency in the case of the person specified in the request (or, as the case may be, in the applicant’s case); and\n(b) disclose to the appropriate adoption agency any information that the agency requires, in relation to an application under section 60, 61 or 62 of the Act, about any entry relating to an adopted person on the Adoption Contact Register.\n(2) The appropriate adoption agency must pay any fee that the Registrar General determines is reasonable for the disclosure of information under paragraph (1)(b).",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "I",
      "label": "I1",
      "text": "Reg. 20 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/20",
    "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."
}