7.1 The Commission also has made other recommendations, of a more minor nature, as a result of its review. The more significant of these may be summarised as follows:

• The Act should be amended so that the contact veto system terminates only if Parliament so decides.
• There should be a discretionary power given to the Director-General to order the issuing of birth certificates or the supply of identifying information in situations that fall outside the existing entitlements, eg to information on files beyond that which is prescribed, or to relatives of adoptees or birth parents.
• There should be an appeal to the Community Welfare Appeals Tribunal against all major decisions of the Director-General exercising powers under the Act.
• The statutory provisions relating to birth fathers should be clarified, in order to implement more fully the original intention that they should be entitled to information relating to the adoptee, and that adoptees should have access to identifying information relating to both their birth parents.
• There should be a provision in the Act granting to birth parents a right to non-identifying information about the adopted child (while under 18), corresponding to the existing rights of adoptive parents to such information about the birth parents.
• The Guardianship Board should be given any additional powers necessary to allow it to make appropriate orders in the case of people who have rights under the Act but where, because of disability, it is impossible or unreasonable for them to exercise those rights personally.
• The Act should be amended to allow, subject to the Director-General's discretion, the information rights of a birth parent or adoptee to be "inherited" by relatives on that person's death.