Adoption (Identity and Information) Bill 2014

Public bill · Private Member · Introduced

Adults who were adopted would have a right to their original birth certificates and adoption records, while natural parents could request limited information, subject to the adopted person’s wishes about contact. Adoption records would be gathered by the Adoption Authority, with support and safeguards for everyone involved, but legal family relationships and inheritance rights would remain unchanged.

Formal long title

Bill entitled an Act to allow adopted persons to obtain a certificate of birth and to access information relating to their identity, origins and the circumstances of their birth, subject to reasonable safeguards to address the position of the natural parents and of the adoptive parents of such adopted persons; to allow natural parents a right to access certain information, subject to the wishes of the adopted person, and to require certain bodies and persons to deliver records to the Adoption Authority.

Last updated 12 April 2018