t provision. 10.91. Where the intermediary agency secures the provision of overseas counselling for a person, ISR 18.2.b permits it to charge a fee to that person to cover any reasonable costs it incurs in securing that provision. 10.92. An adoption agency may charge an intermediary agency a fee in connection with a request under ISR 12. This will be a fee which it decides is reasonable for providing its views on the appropriateness of an application, or for disclosing information for the purposes set out at ISR 12.3.c. 10.93. The intermediary agency is obliged to pay fees charged under these provisions, but may seek to recover these costs from the applicant as part of the charge it may make for processing an application. 206 Chapter 11: Access to information in post- commencement adoptions (post 30 December 2005) This part of the guidance explains the legal framework for managing and disclosing information in relation to people once they have been adopted. It covers the information which must be kept by adoption agencies, the length of time for which it must be kept and the circumstances in which it may be disclosed. It also explains the procedure for dealing with applications for the disclosure of information from adopted people, birth relatives and others. See also chapter 6 on safeguarding adoption records and the practice guidance Adoption: Access to Information and Intermediary Services. The legal framework 11.1. Sections 56–65 of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 (the Act) and the Disclosure of Adoption Information (Post-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005 (AIR) set out the legal framework for managing and disclosing information in relation to adoptions which have taken place since 30 December 2005. This framework specifies:  the information that adoption 