Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 269

269 Contact statements

(1) An adopted person who is at least 17 years and 6 months old, or a birth parent of an adopted person, may give the chief executive a signed document in the approved form (a
"contact statement" ) stating the person’s wish about being contacted by another stated person who may ask for information about the person under division 3 .

(2) A contact statement may state that—

(a) the person does not wish to be contacted by another stated person; or

(b) the person wishes any contact with another stated person to happen only in a stated way.

Examples—

• Contact is to happen only by telephone.

• In-person contact is to happen only at a neutral place in the presence of a mediator.

(3) A contact statement may also state the person’s wishes about being contacted by the chief executive in relation to giving consent to the disclosure of information about the person under division 2 or 3 .