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.