For those of you who understand that there was a Regulatory Reform Order laid before Parliament on the 23 July 2004 and which is now before the Regulatory Reform Committee. You will understand that now is the time to make your representations to that Committee. You have until Friday 17 September 2004 to do so.
Past representations that you have made to MPs etc including response forms, have already been looked at and as a result this Regulatory Reform Order makes many major changes to the proposals published for consultation in July of last year If you do not know how to make a representation to the Regulatory Reform Committee then please read the following web page.
http://www.parliament.uk/parliamenta...003_04__14.cfm
Whatever you do, please don’t just ignore this. It is every bit as important as the Access to Information (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2004 that we just all been discussing, in its impact on adopted people and birth relatives who search for each other.
The Regulatory Reform Order and an explanatory document about it can be downloaded from
http://www.gro.gov.uk/gro/content/ab...ad/index.asp#0
and I have extracted the parts of the explanatory document that apply to the adoption community and put them on a webpage at
http://civilregistration.harritt.net
and for some perspective you can see my response to last year’s consultation in PDF format at
http://rhresponse.harritt.net
Robin Harritt
http://harritt.net
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