New South Wales Consolidated Acts New South Wales Consolidated Acts(cf AC Act ss 10, 11 (2), AC Reg Sch 2)
(1) The Director-General is to determine an application for accreditation:(a) by accrediting the organisation as an adoption service provider that may provide any one or more adoption services specified by the Director-General, or(b) by refusing to accredit the organisation.
(2) The Director-General may, by order published in the Gazette, establish:(a) the adoption services or classes of adoption services (including intercountry adoption services) that the Director-General may accredit an adoption service provider to provide, and(b) standards with which an applicant for accreditation must comply in order to be accredited to provide an adoption service or class of adoption services.
(3) Sections 40 and 41 of the Interpretation Act 1987 apply to an order referred to in subsection (2) in the same way as they apply to a statutory rule within the meaning of that Act.
(4) A copy of any standards in force under subsection (2) (b) must be kept posted on the Department’s internet website.