Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 333

333 Application by step-parent

(1) This section applies if—

(a) immediately before the commencement day—

(i) an application under the repealed Act, section 13AA, to have a person’s name entered in the Relative Children’s Adoption List had not been finally dealt with; or

(ii) a person’s name was in the Relative Children’s Adoption List; and

(b) the person is a person who may apply to adopt the relevant child under section 92.

(2) The person is taken to have made an application under that section to the chief executive to arrange an adoption by the person of the child.