Rule 14.18 Disclosing information to an adopted adult

(1)

The adopted person has the right, on request, to receive from the court which made the adoption order a copy of the following—

(a)

the application form for an adoption order (but not the documents attached to that form);

(b)

the adoption order and any other orders relating to the adoption proceedings;

(c)

orders F1containing any provision for contact with the child after the adoption order was made; and

(d)

any other document or order referred to in Practice Direction 14F.

(2)

The court will remove any protected information from any copy of a document or order referred to in paragraph (1) before the copies are given to the adopted person.

(3)

This rule does not apply to an adopted person under the age of 18 years.

(4)

In this rule “protected information” means information which would be protected information under section 57(3) of the 2002 Act if the adoption agency gave the information and not the court.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Words in rule 14.18(1)(c) substituted (22.4.2014) by The Family Procedure (Amendment No. 3) Rules 2014 (S.I. 2014/843), rules 1, 37