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Reprint as at 24 January 2009

Adult Adoption Information Act 1985

Public Act	1985 No 127
Date of assent	13 September 1985

Note

Changes authorised by section 17C of the Acts and Regulations Publication Act 1989 have been made in this eprint.

A general outline of these changes is set out in the notes at the end of this eprint, together with other explanatory material about this eprint.

This Act is administered in the Ministry of Justice

Contents

1 Short Title and commencement

2 Interpretation

Access to information

3 Birth parent may restrict access to identifying information

4 Adult adopted person may apply for original birth certificate

5 Certificates for persons adopted before commencement of Act

6 Certificates for persons adopted after commencement of Act

7 Adopted person may register desire not to have contact with birth parents

8 Access by birth parents to identifying information

9 Access by adult adopted persons to identifying information

10 Departmental assistance in approaching parent or child

11 Access to information on medical grounds

Approved persons and organisations

12 Minister may approve persons and organisations for purposes of Act

14 Act not to affect disclosure of non-identifying information

15 Amendment to Adoption Act 1955

23 Inspection of adoption records

An Act to provide for greater access to information relating to adoptions and to the parties to adoptions by adult adopted persons and their birth parents, and for other related matters

BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: