Australian Capital Territory Consolidated Regulations

ADOPTION REGULATION 1993

- made under the Adoption Act 1993

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

   PART 1--PRELIMINARY

   1.      Name of regulation  
   2A.     Notes  
   2B.     Offences against regulation—application of Criminal Code etc  
   3.      Definitions for regulation  

   PART 2--THE ADOPTION LIST

   4.      Adoption list—requests for inclusion  

   PART 3--CONSENTS

   5.      Consent must be accompanied by statutory declaration  
   6.      Conditions for signing  
   7.      Primary and secondary witnesses  
   8.      Functions of primary witness  
   9.      Functions of secondary witness  

   PART 4--ACCESS TO INFORMATION

   10.     Prescribed information—incest and sexual assault  

   PART 5--ADOPTION RECORDS

   11.     Particulars to be given to chief executive by private adoption agencies following adoption  
   12.     Transfer of private agency records to chief executive  
   13.     Maintenance of records  

   PART 6--PRIVATE ADOPTION AGENCIES

   14.     Application for approval  
   15.     Alteration of objects, structure or trusts of private adoption agency  
   16.     Principal officer  
   17.     People acting for or on behalf of private adoption agency  
   18.     Adoption of overseas children  
   19.     Residential premises  
   20.     Storage of information  
   21.     Private adoption agencies not to breach Cwlth information privacy  

   PART 7--REGISTRATION OF ADOPTIONS

   22.     Register of adoptions  
   23.     Registration  
   24.     Access to information from register of adoptions  
   25.     Re-registration of birth of adopted child  
   26.     Correction of errors in register of adoptions  
   27.     Cancellation of entries in register of adoptions  
   27A.    Offence to destroy etc register  
   27B.    Offence to re-register birth  
   28.     Obligations of registrar-general  
   29.     Memoranda of orders sent to States and other Territories  
   30.     Reviewable decisions—Act, s 102, def reviewable decision  
   30A.    Right of review and notice—Act, s 103 and s 103A  
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