Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 25

25 Pre-consent information and counselling for Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander child

(1) This section applies if the child to be adopted is an Aboriginal person or Torres Strait Islander.

(2) The counselling under section 24 must be carried out in a way and at a place that is appropriate to Aboriginal tradition or Island custom.

(3) The person who explains the prescribed information mentioned in section 23 (1) (k) —

(a) need not be a counsellor under section 24 ; but

(b) must be an appropriate Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person.

(4) This section does not apply to the counselling of a parent to the extent the parent, by giving the chief executive a signed notice in the approved form, declines to receive counselling in a way, or by a person, required by this section.

(5) The approved form for subsection (4) must state—

(a) that the chief executive has offered the parent counselling under this section; and

(b) the extent to which the counselling is declined; and

(c) that the chief executive has given the parent a document containing the information mentioned in subsection (3) .