Queensland Consolidated Acts
[Index]
[Table]
[Search]
[Search this Act]
[Notes]
[Noteup]
[Previous]
[Next]
[Download]
[Help]
ADOPTION ACT 2009 - SECT 88
Selection to meet anticipated future need
88 Selection to meet anticipated future need
(1) From time to time, the chief executive must select persons from the
expression of interest register to be assessed for suitability to be an
adoptive parent.
(2) The purpose of selections under this section is to
ensure the likely future need for adoptive parents identified in planning
under division 1 may be met.
(3) The chief executive must select appropriate
numbers of persons, with appropriate profiles, according to the likely need
relating to local adoptions and the likely need relating to intercountry
adoptions for each relevant country.
(4) The chief executive must be
satisfied the persons selected are, based on their profiles, likely to meet
the anticipated placement needs of children to be adopted. Note— The
placement needs of children to be adopted by an intercountry adoption are
determined having regard to matters that include the requirements of the
competent authority for the country that apply to prospective adoptive parents
of children from the country. See schedule 3 , definition placement needs ,
paragraph (c) .
(5) Subject to subsection (4) , the chief executive may, in
deciding whom to select, give priority to— (a) a person with the same ethnic
background as children to be adopted; or
(b) a person who has previously
adopted a child with similar placement needs as children to be adopted; or
(c) a person with the earliest relevant expression of interest.
(6) In this
section—
"relevant expression of interest" , for a person, means— (a) if the
person’s name has previously been removed from the
expression of interest register under section 79 (1) (a) , the expression of
interest for which the person’s name had been entered in the register; or
(b) otherwise, the person’s current expression of interest.
AustLII: Copyright Policy
| Disclaimers
| Privacy Policy
| Feedback