S.I. No. 8/2018 - Adoption Act 2010 (Register of Gender Recognition of Intercountry Adoptions) (Fees) Regulations 2018

1. Search of index to the register specified in Regulation 4

€0

2. Certified copy or certified extract of an entry in the register specified in Regulation 5(1)

€20

3. Uncertified copy of an entry in the register specified in Regulation 5(2)

€4

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

11 January 2018.

KATHERINE ZAPPONE,

Minister for Children and Youth Affairs.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations prescribe the fees required to be paid for—

• obtaining copies or extracts of entries in the register of gender recognition of intercountry adoptions, and

• searching the index of the register of gender recognition of intercountry adoptions.

These Regulations may be cited as the Adoption Act 2010 (Register of Gender Recognition of Intercountry Adoptions) (Fees) Regulations 2018 and come into operation on 18 January 2018.

4. The prescribed fee payable to the Authority under section 91B(1) of the Principal Act for each search of the register of gender recognition of intercountry adoptions, and the index to that register, carried out by the Authority pursuant to that provision is the amount set out in column (2) of the Schedule, opposite reference 1 in column (1).

5. (1) The prescribed fee payable to the Authority under section 91B(1) of the Principal Act for each certified copy or certified extract of an entry in the register of gender recognition of intercountry adoptions given by the Authority pursuant to that provision is the amount set out in column (2) of the Schedule, opposite reference 2 in column (1).

(2) The prescribed fee payable to the Authority under section 91B(1) of the Principal Act for each uncertified copy of an entry in the register of gender recognition of intercountry adoptions given by the Authority pursuant to that provision is the amount set out in column (2) of the Schedule, opposite reference 3 in column (1).

6. The Adoption Act 2010 (Register of Gender Recognition of Intercountry Adoptions) (Fees) Regulations 2017 (

S.I. No. 537 of 2017

) are revoked.

SCHEDULE

Matters in relation to which Fees Payable (1)

Amount of Fee Payable (2)

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of

16

th January

, 2018.

I, KATHERINE ZAPPONE, Minister for Children and Youth Affairs, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by

section 150

of the

Adoption Act 2010

(No. 21 of 2010) and the Office of the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs (Transfer of Departmental Administration and Ministerial Functions) Order 2011 (

S.I. No. 218 of 2011

), hereby make the following Regulations