Adoption Act 2009

This section applies if—

the chief executive is a guardian of a child under section 57; and

it is at least 30 days since the last consent required for the adoption was given; and

the chief executive has received a notice from a corresponding officer for another State—

stating that the corresponding officer wishes to arrange for the child’s adoption in the other State; and

asking the chief executive to renounce the chief executive’s guardianship of the child.

If the chief executive is satisfied it would be in the child’s best interests, the chief executive may, by a signed document, renounce the chief executive’s guardianship of the child.

Immediately after signing a document under subsection (2), the chief executive must give to the corresponding officer the document and all consents to the adoption of the child held by the chief executive.

When the chief executive gives the documents to the corresponding officer, the chief executive stops having guardianship of the child.