Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 290

290 Entitlement to information or source document relating to particular entries

(1) This section applies to—

(a) a person who has been given information under part 11 , division 2 or 3 about another person; or

(b) a birth parent of an adopted person; or

(c) another person prescribed under a regulation.

(2) On request by the person, the chief executive must give the person an authorisation to obtain information or a document under this section.

(3) However, the authorisation—

(a) must not relate to any information that the chief executive may not disclose to the person on a request under part 11 ; and

(b) may exclude information if the chief executive is satisfied that allowing access to the information would be an unreasonable invasion of a person’s privacy or otherwise unreasonably harm a person’s interests.

Example—

The authorisation may exclude a part of a document showing the adopted person’s birth was the result of a sexual offence.

(4) The person may make an application, accompanied by an authorisation from the chief executive under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 2023 , section 110 for information or a copy of a source document to which the authorisation relates.

(5) The registrar must grant the application if it relates to an entry for the adopted person in the register of births.

(6) Also, the registrar must grant the application if—

(a) it relates to an entry for the adopted person in the adopted children register; and

(b) the applicant is a birth parent or a relative of a birth parent.

(7) Information given under subsection (6) , or given under this section and relating to a closed entry, may be given by the registrar in the form the registrar considers appropriate.