Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) Subject to
section 24(2), the following persons’ effective consent to a
child’s adoption is required —
(a)
where the child has not been adopted before —
(i)
the child’s mother; and
(ii)
the child’s father or parent under section 6A of
the Artificial Conception Act 1985 ;
or
(b)
where the child has been adopted before —
(i)
in this State; or
(ii)
elsewhere if under section 136 or 138 the adoption has
the same effect as an adoption order,
each adoptive parent
of the child; and
(c) in
every case —
(i)
each person with parental responsibility for the child;
and
(ii)
where the child will be 12 or more years of age at the
time when the application for an adoption order is filed in the Court, the
child.
(2) The person to whom
a person referred to in subsection (1) is married, or in a de facto
relationship with, is not required to consent to the adoption order being made
unless the first-mentioned person is also a person referred to in subsection
(1).
[Section 17 amended: No. 3 of 2002 s. 7; No. 15 of
2012 s. 69.]