Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022
Public bill · Government · Presented
Makes it easier for adopted people, people with incorrect birth registrations, and people who spent time in certain institutions or care arrangements to get their birth certificate, early-life records, medical information, and other items linked to their origins. It also creates a statutory tracing service and a Contact Preference Register so people can indicate whether they want contact, while keeping records safe and allowing counselling and support. For families where the person has died, children and next of kin can sometimes access the same kinds of information. It also fixes the law on incorrect birth registrations by allowing birth records to be corrected and a separate record of a person’s social identity to be kept.
Formal long title
Bill entitled 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.
Last updated 11 September 2024
- Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth Primary
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- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: From the Seanad Dáil
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage Seanad
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage Dáil
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage Dáil
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) Select Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage (Resumed) Select Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Committee Stage Select Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) Dáil
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Referral to Select Committee Dáil
- Birth Information and Tracing Bill 2022: Second Stage Dáil