Adoption (County Court) (Amendment) Rules 1965
| Jurisdiction | UK Non-devolved |
| Citation | SI 2070/1965 |
| Year | 1965 |
1965 No. 2070 (L. 25)
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS
The Adoption (County Court) (Amendment) Rules 19657thDecember 1965
Rules 1 and 31stJanuary 1966Remainder1stMarch 1966
I, Gerald, Baron Gardiner, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, in exercise of the power conferred on me by section 9 of the Adoption Act 1958(a), as amended by section 54 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1963(b), do hereby make the following Rules:—
1. In these Rules a Rule referred to by number means the Rule so numbered in the Adoption (County Court) Rules 1959(c) and a form referred to by number means the form so numbered in the First Schedule to those Rules.
2. Rule 22 shall be amended as follows:—
(1) In paragraph (1) the word "or" shall be omitted at the end of sub-paragraph (b) and inserted at the end of sub-paragraph (c), and after sub-paragraph (c) there shall be added the following sub-paragraph:—
"(d) at the request of another county court, a juvenile court or the High Court."
(2) In paragraph (2) for the words "This Rule" there shall be substituted the words "The foregoing paragraph".
(3) After paragraph (2) there shall be added the following paragraph:—
"(3) A county court shall not request another county court, a juvenile court or the High Court to furnish a copy of an adoption order under paragraph (1)(d) of this Rule or under any other Adoption Rule corresponding to that paragraph except in the case of an infant born in England who had been adopted in England before 1st April 1959 and in respect of whom the registration district and sub-district in which he was born would not otherwise be proved to the satisfaction of the first mentioned court for the purposes of section 21(3) of the Act."
3. In Rule 27 for the words "and shall not be disclosed by him except so far as may be necessary for the proper execution of his duty" there shall be substituted the following words:—
"and shall be disclosed if, but only if,—
(a) the disclosure is necessary for the proper exercise of his duties, or
(b) the information is requested—
(i) by a court or public authority (whether within Great Britain or not) having power to authorise an adoption, for the purpose of the discharge of its duties in that behalf, or
(ii) by a person who is authorised in writing by or on behalf of the Secretary of State to obtain the information for the purposes of research."
(a) 7 & 8 Eliz. 2. c. 5.
(b) 1963 c. 37.
(c) S.I. 1959/480 (1959 I, p. 611).
4. After Rule 27 there shall be...
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