e costs it incurs in processing an application. This could include any costs incurred in tracing an individual to seek their views, gathering additional information where the agency records do not enable it to trace an individual, and the provision of counselling. Where the agency publishes a schedule of fees it must ensure that this is regularly 223 updated, and made available to any person who applies for the disclosure of information under sections 61 or 62 of the Act. 224 Chapter 12: Post adoption counselling and Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers This part of the guidance gives guidance on the duties of agencies in respect of counselling for those seeking intermediary services or access to information after adoption and explains the Registrar General’s role in provision of the Adopted Children and Adoption Contact Registers. See also chapters 10 and 11. Counselling 12.1. The Adoption Information and Intermediary Services (Pre-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005 (ISR) and the Disclosure of Adoption Information (Post-Commencement Adoptions) Regulations 2005 (AIR) recognise the important role that counselling, support and advice can play both for the applicant and the subject of the application. In the context of intermediary services, it may help the applicant prepare for the process of tracing a birth relative from whom they may have been separated for many years. It will also help them to prepare for positive and negative outcomes, such as feelings of loss or rejection that may arise where the subject has no wish for contact or has died. In the context of both intermediary services and the disclosure of information, counselling is likely to be needed to help the applicant understand the context in which decisions were made affecting them, and to p