New South Wales Repealed Acts

This legislation has been repealed.

ADOPTION INFORMATION ACT 1990 - SECT 28

28 Veto on contact-offences

(1) An information recipient must not:

(a) contact or attempt to contact the person who lodged a contact veto against contact by the information recipient, or

(b) procure another person to contact or attempt to contact that person.

(2) An information recipient must not:

(a) use information obtained under this Act to intimidate or harass the person who lodged a contact veto against contact by the information recipient, or

(b) procure any other person to intimidate or harass that person by the use of that information.

(3) A person is not to claim to act on behalf of or hold himself or herself out as being willing to act on behalf of another person with a view to contravening this section.

(4) In this section:
"information recipient" means an adopted person, adoptive parent, birth parent, relative or other person:

(a) who has received an original birth certificate or amended birth certificate endorsed with a contact veto against contact by him or her (being a contact veto that remains in force), or

(b) who has had disclosed to him or her prescribed information under this Act and who has knowledge that a contact veto against contact by him or her is then in force.

Maximum penalty: 25 penalty units or imprisonment for 6 months, or both.