Birth Information and Tracing Act 2022
PART 7 Safeguarding relevant records | ||
Minister may prescribe relevant record, secondary information source | ||
43. (1) The Minister may, for the purposes of paragraph (e) of the definition in section 2 of “relevant record” prescribe a record, or a class of record, to be a relevant record, where the Minister is of the opinion that— | ||
(a) it relates to the care of a child or of children, | ||
(b) were it not to be prescribed under this subsection, it or a part of it would be at risk of being destroyed or otherwise lost, and | ||
(c) having regard to its historical or social value, it is in the public interest that it be prescribed under this subsection. | ||
(2) The Minister may, for the purposes of paragraph (i) of the definition in section 2 of “secondary information source”, prescribe a person to be a secondary information source, where the Minister reasonably believes that the person has in his or her possession a relevant record. |