Western Australian Current Acts Western Australian Current Acts (1) If the CEO is
informed by the Registrar that an adoptee has died, the CEO is to inform the
adoptee’s birth parents of the death if the CEO considers that —
(a) it
is reasonably practicable to do so; and
(b) it
is appropriate to do so, after having regard to the provisions of the relevant
adoption plan.
(2) If the CEO
receives information that one of the parties to an adoption or a sibling of
the adoptee (whether of the whole or half blood) has died, the CEO is to
inform the other parties to the adoption, or the adoptee’s siblings
(whether of the whole or half blood), as the case may be, of the death so far
as the CEO considers that it is reasonably practicable to do so.
(3) The CEO does not
have to inform a person under subsection (1) or (2) of a death —
(a) if
the person has, in a manner approved by the CEO, notified the CEO that the
person does not wish to be so advised; or
(b) in
special circumstances.
[Section 80 amended: No. 40 of 1998 s. 6(6); No. 8
of 2003 s. 43; No. 34 of 2004 Sch. 2 cl. 2(8).]