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ADOPTION ACT 1993 - SECT 40 Adoption order subject to certain conditions

ADOPTION ACT 1993 - SECT 40

Adoption order subject to certain conditions

If the court is of the opinion that—

        (a)     circumstances exist that justify it doing so, whether because of the age of the child or young person or otherwise; and

        (b)     the birth parents and the adoptive parents have, after the required consents were given, agreed that the adoption order should be subject to certain conditions;

the court may make the adoption order subject to either or both of the following conditions:

        (c)     a condition that such birth parents and such relatives of the child or young person as are stated in the order have such right of access to the child or young person as is stated in the order;

        (d)     a condition that the adoptive parents of the child or young person provide information about the child or young person to the director-general or principal officer of a private adoption agency to be given to the birth parents at such periods and in accordance with such terms as are stated in the order.