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

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Citation: IR SI 537/2017
• Year: 2017

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 1st December, 2017.

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:

1. These Regulations may be cited as the Adoption Act 2010 (Register of Gender Recognition of Intercountry Adoptions) (Fees) Regulations 2017.

2. These Regulations come into operation on 4 December 2017.

3. In these Regulations “Principal Act” means the Adoption Act 2010 (No. 21 of 2010).

4. (1) The amount of €2 is prescribed as the 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.

(2) The amount of €20 is prescribed as the 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.

(3) The amount of €4 is prescribed as the fee payable to the Authority under section 91B(1) of the Principal Act for each copy of an entry in the register of gender recognition of intercountry adoptions given by the Authority pursuant to that provision.

GIVEN under my Official Seal,

27 November 2017.

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 set 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 2017 and come into operation on 4 December 2017.