 followed. Confidentiality: AAR 41 6.13. The agency is required by AAR 41 to treat the contents of case records as confidential, subject to the requirements of AAR 42. 112 Access and disclosure: AAR 42 6.14. AAR 42 applies to access to and disclosure of adoption records up to the point where an adoption order is made. AAR 42.1 sets out where the agency is required to provide access to information; these provisions are similar to those in AIR 9 with regard to disclosure after the making of the adoption order. AAR 42.2 sets out the circumstances where an agency has discretion to provide access, such as when the child’s agency needs information from the prospective adopter’s agency during the matching and placement process or upon request by a fostering service provider under regulation 16(1A)(f) of the Fostering Services (England) Regulations 2011. Obligatory access to or disclosure from records: AAR 42 and AIR 9 6.15. The following guidance relates to the agency’s duties under both AAR 42 and AIR 9 where it is required to make disclosure to authorised people under the provisions of either set of regulations. The duties relate to adoption case records both before and after the making of an adoption order. The same duties in essence also apply to case records kept under regulation 14 of the 1983 Regulations where the adoption order was made before 30 December 2005. 6.16. In the following circumstances, the agency is required to provide access to information from the case record to the person or body indicated. Where the adoption order has been made, on or after 30 December 2005, the requirement is contained in the AIR. Where no adoption order has yet been made, the AAR apply. The AIR refer to the information as ‘section 56 information’; the AAR refer to ‘case records.’  T