New South Wales Repealed Acts

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ADOPTION INFORMATION ACT 1990 - SECT 36A

36A Entitlements of disabled persons

(1) In this section a reference to a person with a disability is a reference to a person:

(a) who is intellectually, physically, psychologically or sensorily disabled, or

(b) who is of advanced age, or

(c) who is a mentally ill person within the meaning of Chapter 3 of the Mental Health Act 1990 , or

(d) who is otherwise disabled,

and who, because of that fact, is restricted in one or more major life activities to such an extent that he or she requires supervision or social rehabilitation.

(2) If a person with a disability:

(a) has an entitlement to receive a birth certificate or prescribed information, or may lodge a contact veto or advance notice request, under this Act, and

(b) is unable, because of the disability, to do anything required by this Act that must be done if the person is to receive the birth certificate or prescribed information or lodge the contact veto or advance notice request,

another person may, if so directed by the Guardianship Board under Part 4A of the Guardianship Act 1987 , do any such act on behalf of the person with the disability.

(3) The Director-General may:

(a) refuse to supply (or, if the regulations provide for the issue of a supply authority, to issue a supply authority authorising an information source to supply) any birth certificate endorsed with a contact veto to a person acting on behalf of a person with a disability, or

(b) direct an information source not to supply any such birth certificate,

if the Director-General is of the opinion that the person will be unable to ensure that the person with the disability will not contact or attempt to contact the person who lodged the contact veto.