Adoption Act 1988

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Placement

Principle means the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child

Placement Principle as set out in the regulations;

adoptive parent, of a child, means a person who has adopted the child in accordance with the provisions of this Act or who is recognised under this Act as having adopted the child;

Australian law means a law of the Commonwealth or of a State or Territory of the Commonwealth;

birth parent, of a child, means—

Family Relationships Act 1975 or any corresponding law of another jurisdiction;

Chief Executive means the chief executive of the administrative unit of the Public Service that is, under the Minister, responsible for the administration of this Act;

child includes—

child born outside lawful marriage includes a child born to a lawfully married woman of which her husband is not the father;

the Convention means the Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in respect of Intercountry Adoption done at The Hague on 29 May

1993;

Convention country means a country outside

Australia in respect of which the Convention has entered into force, but does not include any country in respect of which Australia has raised an objection in accordance with Article 44 of the Convention;

the Court means the Youth Court of South

Australia;

domestic partner—a person is a domestic partner of another if they are in a qualifying relationship with each other;

Family Law Act 1975 means the

Family Law Act 1975 (Cwth), as amended from time to time;

guardian, of a child who is less than 18 years of age, means a person (other than the Chief Executive) who is the legal guardian of the child or has the legal custody of the child or any other person who stands in loco parentis to the child and has done so for a significant length of time;

party to an adoption—each of the following persons is a party to an adoption:

psychologist means a person registered under the

Health Practitioner Regulation National

Law to practise in the psychology profession (other than as a student);

publish means publish by newspaper, radio or television, or on the internet, or by other similar means of communication to the public;

qualifying relationship means the relationship between 2 persons who are living together in a marriage or marriage-like relationship (irrespective of their sex or gender identity);

Registrar means the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages;

relative, of a person, means a grandparent, brother, sister, uncle or aunt of the person, whether the relationship is of the whole blood or half blood or by affinity;

statement of wishes means a written statement given to the Chief Executive by an adopted person, birth parent or adoptive parent in accordance with section 27B setting out the person's wishes in relation to contact by another party to the adoption.

Judge of the Court or a magistrate.

and

or

Strait Islander tradition, they will be regarded as husband and wife for the purposes of this Act.