New South Wales Consolidated Acts

CHILDREN'S GUARDIAN ACT 2019 - SECT 112

112 Review of adoption service providers

(2) The Children's Guardian is to monitor whether the Secretary and accredited adoption service providers are carrying out their responsibilities with respect to the provision of adoption services in accordance with this Act and the regulations, and the Adoption Act 2000 and the regulations under that Act.

Note : Section 11 of the Adoption Act 2000 provides that it is an offence for a person to provide an adoption service unless the person is the Secretary or accredited under this Act as an adoption service provider.

(3) A person who makes a statement, orally or in writing, that the person knows to be false for the purposes of or in connection with subsection (1) or (2) is guilty of an offence.

: Maximum penalty--25 penalty units or imprisonment for 12 months, or both.

(4) Subsection (3) does not apply to a document if the person, when giving the document--

(a) tells the Children's Guardian or an officer of the Children's Guardian, to the best of the person's ability, how it is false or misleading, and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information--gives the correct information.