Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 161

161 Other children in adoptive family

(1) The chief executive must have regard to the considerations that it would ordinarily be in a child’s best interests—

(a) to be the youngest child in the adoptive family, by at least 2 years, at the time of the placement; and

(b) for no other children to join the adoptive family for at least 1 year after the placement, whether by birth, adoption, placement under the Child Protection Act 1999 or in another way.

(2) Subsection (1) applies to children in the adoptive family other than any sibling of the child placed with the same family.