Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 334

334 Special Needs Children’s Adoption List

(1) This section applies to a person whose name was in the Special Needs Children’s Adoption List immediately before the commencement day.

(2) If there was a notation in the list, made under the repealed Act, section 13D(3)(a), stating the person is a prospective adopter, the person’s name must be listed in the suitable adoptive parents register.

(3) Otherwise, the person’s name must be listed in the expression of interest register.

(4) For section 79(1)(a), a name listed in the expression of interest register under subsection (3) is taken to have been entered in that register on the later of the following days—

(a) the day the name was entered in the Special Needs Children’s Adoption List under the repealed Act;

(b) 1 year before the commencement day.