e AAA not only its views on the application, but the reasons for those views, with information supporting the reasoning. This will also be essential to enable the intermediary agency to provide counselling for the applicant. 10.31. In circumstances where:  the intermediary agency is unable to establish the identity of the AAA;  the AAA is identified but its records have been lost or destroyed; or  the intermediary agency establishes that no adoption agency was involved in the adoption, the intermediary agency will have scant information to inform its decision as to whether to proceed. Thus, it may be useful to seek information that the Registrar General may hold on the Adoption Contact Register to inform any decision as to whether to proceed with the application. 10.32. In addition to the welfare of the applicant and the subject of the application, the intermediary agency is also required by ISR 6.2.a.iii to have regard to the welfare of “any other person who may be identified or otherwise affected by the application”. The agency will therefore need to have regard to the welfare of the 193 adoptive parents as well as any siblings within the adoptive family. Although the intermediary agency is not routinely required to seek the view of the adoptive parents, it will need to exercise its discretion as to whether it is appropriate to do so having regard to the particular circumstances of the case. 10.33. The views of the adoptive parents will not on their own be decisive but one of a range of factors to which the agency must have regard in deciding whether to proceed, or continue proceeding, with the application. However, where a younger sibling within the adoptive family is under the age of 18, the intermediary agency is required by ISR 6.3 to have particular regard to 