Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022
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Number 14 of 2022 | ||
BIRTH INFORMATION AND TRACING ACT 2022 | ||
CONTENTS | ||
Preliminary and General | ||
Section | ||
Access to birth certificate, birth and other information and provided items | ||
7. Provision of birth certificate to applicant under section 6 aged 18 years or over | ||
8. Provision of birth certificate to applicant under section 6 aged between 16 and 18 years | ||
14. Application for provided items by relevant person aged between 16 and 18 years | ||
18. Provision of information to relevant person who has not attained age of 18 years | ||
Access by qualifying person to birth certificate, birth and other information and provided items relating to relevant parent | ||
23. Application by qualifying person for certain provided items | ||
Access by qualifying relative to birth and other information and provided items relating to relevant relative | ||
29. Application by qualifying relative for certain provided items (Part 4) | ||
Tracing service | ||
32. Agency and Authority may provide a tracing service on application | ||
33. Minister may authorise Agency and Authority to conduct review or trace | ||
36. Application by certain adopted person for tracing service in another jurisdiction | ||
Contact Preference Register | ||
40. Authority to communicate matches on register and share information and items | ||
41. Applicants for entry on register to be informed of provisions of Part 5 | ||
42. Transfer of information and preferences from National Adoption Contact Preference Register | ||
Safeguarding relevant records | ||
43. Minister may prescribe relevant record, secondary information source | ||
45. Obligation of secondary information source in respect of relevant records | ||
46. Obligation of other person in respect of relevant records | ||
47. Secondary information source or other person may request transfer of relevant record | ||
49. Authority and Agency to retain relevant records in respect of future adoptions | ||
Amendment of Succession Act 1965 | ||
Amendment of Civil Registration Act 2004 | ||
Miscellaneous | ||
59. Provision relating to persons the subject of incorrect birth registration | ||
66. Processing of personal data and special categories of personal data | ||
68. Restriction of rights and obligations under General Data Protection Regulation | ||
Amendment of enactments | ||
Acts Referred to | ||
Adoption Act 1952 (No. 25) | ||
Adoption Act 2010 (No. 21) | ||
Child Care Act 1991 (No. 17) | ||
Children Act 1908 (8 Edw. 7, c. 67) | ||
Civil Registration Act 2004 (No. 3) | ||
Companies Act 2014 (No. 38) | ||
Data Protection Act 2018 (No. 7) | ||
Health Act 1970 (No. 1) | ||
Local Government Act 2001 (No. 37) | ||
Medical Practitioners Act 2007 (No. 25) | ||
National Archives Act 1986 (No. 11) | ||
Succession Act 1965 (No. 27) | ||
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Number 14 of 2022 | ||
BIRTH INFORMATION AND TRACING ACT 2022 | ||
An Act to make further and better provision in respect of access by certain persons to information concerning their origins and, for that purpose, to provide for the access by adopted persons and persons who have been the subject of incorrect birth registrations or certain care arrangements to their birth certificates and other information and items relating to them; to provide, where such persons are deceased, for the access in certain circumstances by their children or other next of kin to such information or items; to provide for the making available, by the Adoption Authority of Ireland and the Child and Family Agency, of a service for the tracing of certain persons; to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a register to be known as the Contact Preference Register; to provide for the safeguarding and transfer to the Adoption Authority of Ireland of certain records relating to the birth, adoption and care of certain persons; to amend the Succession Act 1965 to make provision in respect of persons who have been the subject of incorrect birth registrations; to amend the Civil Registration Act 2004 to make additional provision in respect of persons who are the subject of incorrect birth registrations; to amend the National Archives Act 1986 ; to amend the Adoption Act 2010 ; and to provide for related matters. | ||
[30th June, 2022] | ||
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas as follows: |