2022/14
Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022
Introduced
12 January 2022
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Enacted
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11 September 2024
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Irish
An tAcht um Fhaisnéis Bhreithe agus Rianú, 2022
Summary
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.
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Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022
Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022
pdf · EN · 30 June 2022
As passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
pdf · EN · 22 June 2022
As passed by Dáil Éireann
pdf · EN · 27 April 2022
As amended in Committee/Select Committee [Dáil Éireann]
pdf · EN · 9 March 2022
Explanatory Memorandum
pdf · EN · 12 January 2022
As Initiated
pdf · EN · 12 January 2022
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- Official source: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/bills/bill/2022/3/
- Open data entity: https://data.oireachtas.ie/ie/oireachtas/bill/2022/3