 may have previously contacted the agency to register their views about possible contact or about being approached by an agency on behalf of a birth relative. They may have previously indicated a wish for contact or no contact or expressed a wish only to be approached by the agency in certain circumstances, such as where important health information has come to light. Where a wish for no contact was registered by an adopted person prior to implementation of the Act, this will not constitute a formal veto under ISR 8. Where the adopted person has registered their views with the adoption agency, the intermediary agency is therefore required by ISR 6 to have regard to those views in deciding whether to continue with the application. 10.72. Where the application is by or on behalf of an adopted person, the birth relative who is the subject will not have been able to register a veto. Nevertheless, they may have contacted the adoption agency to indicate their views on any possible approach with regard to contact. If they have done so, then the intermediary agency must have regard to those views in deciding whether to proceed. 10.73. The intermediary agency must ascertain the AAA’s views as to the appropriateness of the application and any proposed contact between the applicant and the subject. In forming its view on the application, the AAA must have regard to the matters set out in ISR 6, including the welfare of the applicant and the subject. There may be information on the case record to indicate that the application is inappropriate or even vexatious. The intermediary agency is required 202 by ISR 6.2.b to have regard to the views of the adoption agency in deciding whether to proceed, or continue proceeding, with the application. 10.74. Having considered the adoption agen