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2022/14

Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022

enactedIreland· Dáil Éireann· EN

Introduced

12 January 2022

Last action

30 June 2022 · Enacted

Status

Enacted

Sponsors

Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

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1 official language
  • 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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Timeline

  1. 12 January 2022

    Published

    Source: Dáil Éireann

  2. 12 January 2022

    First Stage

    Source: Dáil Éireann

  3. 19 January 2022

    Second Stage

    Source: Dáil Éireann

  4. 20 January 2022

    Committee Stage

    Source: Dáil Éireann

  5. 9 March 2022

    Report Stage

    Source: Dáil Éireann

  6. 27 April 2022

    Fifth Stage

    Source: Dáil Éireann

  7. 27 April 2022

    Second Stage

    Source: Seanad Éireann

  8. 10 May 2022

    Committee Stage

    Source: Seanad Éireann

  9. 1 June 2022

    Report Stage

    Source: Seanad Éireann

  10. 15 June 2022

    Fifth Stage

    Enacted

    Source: Seanad Éireann

  11. 22 June 2022

    Cream List

    Enacted

    Source: Dáil Éireann

  12. 30 June 2022

    Enacted

  13. 30 June 2022

    Enacted

    Enacted

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Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022

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  • Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022

    pdf · EN · 30 June 2022

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  • As passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas

    pdf · EN · 22 June 2022

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  • As passed by Dáil Éireann

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  • As amended in Committee/Select Committee [Dáil Éireann]

    pdf · EN · 9 March 2022

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  • Explanatory Memorandum

    pdf · EN · 12 January 2022

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  • As Initiated

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Sponsors

  • Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth · Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

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