102Adoption Information Service

102 Adoption Information Service There shall be an Adoption Information Service established by the Secretary and within each approved agency which shall— (a) advise persons with respect to the provisions of this Part; (b) make arrangements for the provision of counselling in relation to applications under this Part; S. 102(c) amended by No. 72/1997 s. 13(d). (c) receive applications for information under this Part; (d) subject to and in accordance with this Part, facilitate the provision of information to a person whose name is entered in the Adoption Information Register maintained under section 103; and S. 102(e) amended by No. 20/2022 s. 59(b). (e) assist a person whose name is entered in that register to obtain information about an adopted person who has been adopted, whether before or after the commencement of this section, in a place outside Victoria and whose birth was not registered in Victoria, or about an adoptive parent or a natural parent of such an adopted person, being information of a kind that, if the adopted person had been adopted in Victoria, the person may have been able to obtain under Division 2; and S. 102(f) inserted by No. 20/2022 s. 59(c). (f) provide services to support persons entitled to be entered in the Adoption Information Register to meet or to provide information to another person entitled to be entered in the Adoption Information Register; and S. 102(g) inserted by No. 20/2022 s. 59(c). (g) provide any other prescribed services.