Western Australian Current Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1994 - SECT 139

139 .         Certain children in WA adopted outside Australia, CEO’s powers to supervise welfare etc. of

        (1)         Where —

            (a)         a child is adopted in a country other than Australia, whether or not the adoption is an adoption that has the same effect as an adoption order under this Act; and

            (b)         the order that was made in relation to the child’s adoption has been in force for less than 12 months; and

            (c)         an adoptive parent of the child was not a citizen of the country in which the order was made at the time the order was made; and

            (d)         the child is present in this State,

                the CEO may supervise the welfare and interests of the child during the 6 months commencing from the day on which the child arrived in this State, and a person authorised in writing by the CEO for that purpose has a right of access to the child at all reasonable times during that period.

        (2)         If a child to whom subsection (1) applies has been resident in another State or a Territory after being adopted but before arriving in this State, the period of supervision is to be reduced by the length of the period of the residence in the other State or the Territory.

        [Section 139 amended: No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 2(8).]