Contact statements
269 Contact statements
An adopted person who is at least 17 years and 6 months old, or a birth parent of an adopted person, may give the chief executive a signed document in the approved form (a contact statement) stating the person’s wish about being contacted by another stated person who may ask for information about the person under division 3.
A contact statement may state that—
the person does not wish to be contacted by another stated person; or
the person wishes any contact with another stated person to happen only in a stated way.
Examples—
• Contact is to happen only by telephone.
• In-person contact is to happen only at a neutral place in the presence of a mediator.
A contact statement may also state the person’s wishes about being contacted by the chief executive in relation to giving consent to the disclosure of information about the person under division 2 or 3.
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