CEO to inform etc. prospective adoptive parents
37 CEO to inform etc. prospective adoptive parents
The CEO is to provide persons contemplating adoptive parenthood with —
oral and written information about adoption; and
counselling in relation to adoption.
Subsection (1)(b) does not apply to a step‑parent, relative or carer of a child who is thinking of adopting the child, but if requested, the CEO is to provide such a person with counselling in relation to adoption.
Despite subsection (1), the CEO does not have to provide a person who is already an adoptive parent and who is contemplating adoptive parenthood for a second or subsequent time with oral information about, and counselling in relation to, adoption unless the person chooses to be provided with such information and counselling.
[Section 37 amended: No. 8 of 2003 s. 22; No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 2(8); No. 15 of 2012 s. 24.]
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