Civil Registration Act 2004

Privacy of adoption records.

35.—(1) No person other than an tArd-Chláraitheoir or a person authorised in that behalf by an tArd-Chláraitheoir shall be entitled to search the register or an index relating to the register which makes traceable an entry in the register of births and no information from the register or such an index shall be given to any person except by order of a court or the Board.

(2) A court shall not make an order under subsection (1) or an order for the discovery, inspection, production or copying of any book, document or record of the Board (or of any extract therefrom), or otherwise in relation to the giving or obtaining of information relating to those books, documents or records, unless it is satisfied that it is in the best interests of any child concerned to do so.