Can disclosure vetoes be overridden?

The AARA appears to contain only 2 exceptions to a disclosure veto. These are: when the veto is filed after the release of information as in the following first 2 points below or after death.

• A dislcosure veto submitted by an adopted person with respect to one or two birth parents does not come into effect with respect to any birth parent to whom the Registrar General has already given information before the match is made.



• A dislosure veto submitted by a birth parent does not come into effect if, before the match is made, the Registrar General has already given the adopted person uncertified copies of the birth documents.



• or... if an adopted person or birth parent who submitted a disclosure veto under this section dies and the disclosure veto is in effect, the disclosure veto ceases to be in effect when the Registrar General has received evidence of the death.

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