Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Acts

ADOPTION ACT 1993 - SECT 12

    (1)     An adoption order must not be made unless, when the application for the order was filed—

        (a)     the applicants were resident or domiciled in the ACT; and

        (b)     the child was present in the ACT.

    (2)     For subsection (1), where the court is satisfied that the applicants were resident or domiciled in the ACT, or that a child was present in the ACT, within 21 days before the date on which an application was filed, the court may, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, presume that the applicants were resident or domiciled in the ACT, or that the child was present in the ACT when the application was filed.