Queensland Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 84

84 Chief executive may close register

(1) The chief executive may close the expression of interest register, or a part of the register, if satisfied the number of persons listed in the register, having regard to their profiles, is significantly higher than the number needed to meet the anticipated need for adoptive parents.

(2) The chief executive may act under subsection (1) in relation to—

(a) the whole of the register; or

(b) a part of the register relating to—

(i) local adoptions; or

(ii) intercountry adoptions; or

(iii) intercountry adoptions from a stated country; or

(iv) adoptions of children with stated characteristics.

(3) The reference in subsection (1) to the anticipated need for adoptive parents includes, for intercountry adoptions from a particular country, the extent to which applications or expressions of interest from Australians are being received at the relevant time by the country’s competent authority.