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ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 121
Unacceptable risk of harm
121 Unacceptable risk of harm
(1) The chief executive must decide if the person or any member of the
person’s household would pose an unacceptable risk of harming a child
adopted by the person.
(2) The chief executive must consider, in particular,
any personal history of the person or of an adult member of the person’s
household.
(3) The chief executive must decide there is an unacceptable risk
for subsection (1) if the person or an adult member of the person’s
household— (a) has been convicted of a disqualifying offence for which an
imprisonment order was imposed; or
(b) is subject to— (i) reporting
obligations under the Child Protection (Offender Reporting and Offender
Prohibition Order) Act 2004 ; or
(ii) an offender prohibition order; or
(iii) a disqualification order; or
(c) has been convicted of a serious
offence.
(4) Subsection (3) (c) does not apply if the chief executive is
satisfied it is an exceptional case in which it would not harm the best
interests of a child to be adopted by the person.
(5) Subject to subsection
(3) , if the chief executive is aware that the person or a member of the
person’s household has been convicted of, or charged with, an offence, the
chief executive must have regard to the following— (a) in relation to the
commission, or alleged commission, of an offence by the person or household
member— (i) whether it is a conviction or a charge; and
(ii) whether the
offence is a serious offence and, if it is, whether it is a disqualifying
offence; and
(iii) when the offence was committed or is alleged to have been
committed; and
(iv) the nature of the offence and its relevance to adopting
children; and
(v) in the case of a conviction—the penalty imposed by the
court and if it decided not to impose an imprisonment order for the offence,
or decided not to make a disqualification order, the court’s reasons for its
decision;
(b) anything else relating to the commission, or alleged
commission, of the offence that the chief executive reasonably considers to be
relevant to the assessment of the risk mentioned in subsection (1) .
(6) If
the chief executive is aware of investigative information about the person or
a member of the person’s household, the chief executive must have regard to
the following— (a) when the acts or omissions constituting the alleged
offence to which the investigative information relates were committed;
(b)
anything else relating to the commission of the acts or omissions that the
chief executive reasonably considers relevant to the assessment of the risk
mentioned in subsection (1) .
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