CEO with parental responsibility, when may renounce or transfer responsibility
33 CEO with parental responsibility, when may renounce or transfer responsibility
Where the CEO has parental responsibility for a child under this Division, and receives from a corresponding officer —
a notice that an application for the adoption of the child is to be made in the other State or the Territory under the law of the other State or the Territory; and
a request that the CEO renounce parental responsibility for the child,
the CEO may by an instrument in writing, renounce the parental responsibility.
The CEO is not to renounce parental responsibility under subsection (1) unless —
the revocation period has expired; and
the CEO has had regard to any current adoption plan in relation to the child; and
under the law of the other State or the Territory, the corresponding officer will have parental responsibility for the child when the CEO signs an instrument renouncing parental responsibility.
The CEO ceases to have parental responsibility under this Division when an instrument renouncing the parental responsibility is signed by the CEO.
The CEO is to cause an instrument under subsection (3) to be sent by registered post to the corresponding officer.
In this section a corresponding officer means a person whose functions in another State or a Territory correspond to those of the CEO under this Act in relation to parental responsibility for children awaiting adoption.
[Section 33 amended: No. 41 of 1997 s. 28; No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 2(8); No. 15 of 2012 s. 20.]
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