83ADisclosure of adoption records in authorised circumstances

83A Disclosure of adoption records in authorised circumstances (1) The Secretary or an agency may disclose an adoption record— (a) to a court or tribunal in the course of a legal proceeding or pursuant to an order of a court or tribunal; or (b) to an investigatory entity pursuant to a notice issued by the investigatory entity to produce a specified document or thing to that investigatory entity for the purposes of an investigation or inquiry conducted by that entity; or (c) in response to a request for information made by an entity that is authorised to request that information by an Act or any other law, if the disclosure is required, authorised or permitted by that Act or law; or (d) in the prescribed circumstances. (2) In this section— ***adoption record*** includes the following, to the extent that the record is under the possession or control of the Secretary or the agency— (a) records and reports referred to in section 83; (b) records of adoptions referred to in section 85; (c) information about an adopted person as defined in section 91; (d) any prescribed information; ***investigatory entity*** means an entity that is authorised by an Act or any other law to require a person to produce a document or thing to the entity.