Adoption Act 2000

In this Chapter—

presumptive father of an adopted person means a man who claims to be the birth parent of the adopted person and who—

is shown on the adopted person’s original birth certificate as the adopted person’s father, or

is shown on the adopted person’s integrated birth certificate as the adopted person’s father at birth, in accordance with the information prescribed under section 17(1) of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995, or

is a person whom the Secretary, Registrar or other information source is entitled to presume, under any law (including a law of another State, the Commonwealth or of a country outside Australia), to be the adopted person’s father.