General Information
- How to request information
- Controlling Legislation: Family Services Act; Vital Statistics Act
- New Brunswick Assembly
Political, Search, and Reunion
- Adopted-Born in New Brunswick – ParentFinders NB (Facebook)
- Canada Open Records Facebook Bastard Nation Partner
Access
Age of Access: 19 years
Adult adoptee access to original full name: Conditional – Subject to veto. Sections 9404, 94.05, 94.06, 94.07, and 94.08
Adult Adoptee access to his or her own original birth certificate (OBC) in full: Conditional – to veto or only adoptees finalized prior to April 1, 2018. Section 94.07
Adult adoptee access to other identifying information about their natural parents: Available for adoptions completed April 1, 2021 or later. Section 94.08. Conditional – subject to vetos for adoptions finalized prior to April 1, 2018.
Natural parents of adult adoptee access to identifying information: Conditional – subject to vetos for only adoptions finalized prior to April 1, 2018. Available for adoptions completed April 1, 2018 or later.Section 94.08
Disclosure Vetoes: For adoptions that took place prior to April 1, 2018: can by placed by a natural parent
an adult adoptee Section 94.06. Expires one year after the death of the person whose information it pertains to, but the onus of proof is on the other person. Section 94.06(7)
Contact Vetos: Contact vetos (punishment is not specified can be placed by a natural parent of an adult adoptee
an adult adoptee. Section 94.2.
Contact Preferences: can be placed by a natural parent of an adult adoptee at any time. Section 94.2
Passive registry: Available Section 94.03
Active search available: Not available
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Links
- N.B. government seeks public input on unsealing adoption records, CTV, April 10, 2014
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- Province moves to open up adoption records — with veto provision, CBC News, February 8, 2017
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- ‘Do they think of me?’ Adoptee eager to see province unlock April 1, CBC News, February 27, 2018,
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‘Do they think of me?’ Adoptee eager to see province unlock records April 1, CBC, February 27, 2018
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N.B. man says unsealing of adoption records comes ‘too late,’ CTV, April 1, 2018
- New Brunswick now accepting applications for adoption information, Global News, April 2, 2018
- New Brunswick Opens Sealed Adoption Records For Those Who reached Age of Majority, Eastman’s Online Geneology Newsletter, April 3, 2018
- Hundreds apply to see or block the opening of adoption records in New Brunswick, Global News, April 19, 2018
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Adoptees records coming soon as officials grapple with onslaught of requests, CTV, April 19, 2018
- Should adopted children have the right to access their birth records?, CBS News, November 27, 2018 (radio)
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Updated July 30, 2020
