Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 132

132 Other cultural matters

(1) This section applies if the chief executive is making a decision about the person’s suitability to be an adoptive parent of a child who is, or children who include, a child of a particular ethnic or other cultural background.

(2) The chief executive must have regard to the person’s ability and willingness to—

(a) understand the child’s background; and

(b) help the child to maintain contact with the child’s community or language group; and

(c) help the child to develop and maintain a connection with the child’s ethnicity or culture; and

(d) preserve and enhance the child’s sense of ethnic or cultural identity.

(3) If the person has a current expression of interest that relates to an intercountry adoption from a particular country, the chief executive must have regard to—

(a) the person’s attitudes to, and understanding of, the country and its culture; and

(b) the person’s ability and willingness, if the person adopted a child from the country, to—

(i) continue to learn about the country and its culture; and

(ii) help the child learn about the country and its culture.