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UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 56.13 Registration of adoption plans

UNIFORM CIVIL PROCEDURE RULES 2005 - REG 56.13

Registration of adoption plans

56.13 Registration of adoption plans

(1) An adoption plan is registered for the purposes of section 50 of the Adoption Act 2000 when the Supreme Court files the plan following the making of an order that it be registered.
(2) An originating process in proceedings for an adoption order may include an application for an order that an adoption plan be registered.
(3) Evidence in support of an application for an order that an adoption plan be registered must include (to the extent that the evidence in support of the application for an adoption order does not already do so)--
(a) a verified copy of the executed adoption plan, and
(b) the facts, matters and circumstances relied on to show that the plan does not contravene the adoption principles, and
(c) the statement on affidavit of each party to the adoption that the party understands the provisions of the plan and has freely entered into it, and
(d) the facts, matters and circumstances relied on to show that the provisions of the plan are in the child's best interests and proper in the circumstances.