Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 168

168 Nature of plan and limitations on operation

(1) An adoption plan—

(a) is not enforceable; and

(b) does not limit the primary responsibility of the prospective adoptive parents or adoptive parents for the child’s upbringing; and

(c) does not entitle a member of the child’s birth family or anyone else to interfere in the child’s upbringing or the relationship between the child and prospective adoptive parents or adoptive parents.

(2) An adoption plan may not include anything that purports to prevent, restrict or otherwise control the movement of a party.

(3) An adoption plan has no effect once the child becomes an adult.