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Informal Adoptions (Regularisation) Bill 2019
- Sponsor
- Joan Burton · Labour Party
- Introduced
- 29 Jan 2019
- Last updated
- 13 Feb 2020
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Allows informally adopted persons to apply to Circuit Court for a declaration of adoption, with court-issued adoption certificate replacing false birth certificate.
- Establishes that pre-1980 birth certificates showing false parents are admissible evidence of family relationship in civil proceedings.
- Protects those raised as children of named parents by making contradictory evidence inadmissible against them, except where they fraudulently procured their own certificate.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage32nd Dáil29 Jan 2019
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