New South Wales Repealed Acts New South Wales Repealed ActsThis legislation has been repealed.
In this Act:
"adopted brother or sister", in relation to an adopted person, means another
adopted person who has or had at least one parent (whether biological or
adoptive) who is or was a birth parent of the adopted person.
"adopted person" means a person:
(a) an order for whose adoption was made under the Adoption of Children Act 1965 or a former Act within the meaning of that Act, or
(b) whose adoption in another State or Territory of the Commonwealth or in a country outside the Commonwealth and the Territories is recognised under the Adoption of Children Act 1965 as having the same effect as if an order for adoption had been made under that Act."adoptive parent" means a person who becomes the parent of an adopted person by adoption.
(a) a public hospital under the control of an area health service within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1997 or the Crown, or
(b) a statutory health corporation or affiliated health organisation within the meaning of the Health Services Act 1997 , or
(c) a private hospital within the meaning of the Private Hospitals and Day Procedure Centres Act 1988 ."information source" means:
(a) the Department of Family and Community Services, or
(b) the Department of Health, or
(c) a private adoption agency, or
(d) a hospital, or
(e) the Office of the Registrar, or
(f) the Supreme Court, or
(g) any other institution, body or person prescribed as an information source for the purposes of this Act."original birth certificate", in relation to an adopted person, means:
(a) if the person’s birth is registered under the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act 1995 -a certificate certifying the particulars relating to the birth of the person registered under section 17 of that Act, or
(b) if the person’s birth is not so registered-a copy of any similar document relating to the adopted person identifying the birth parents of the person and contained in records relating to the adoption of the person that are held by an information source."prescribed information" has the meaning given by section 5.
(a) the Registrar, or
(b) if another person is prescribed by the regulations for the purpose of the provision in relation to which the expression is used-that person."private adoption agency" means a charitable organisation for the time being approved as a private adoption agency under Part 3 of the Adoption of Children Act 1965 .
(a) whether the relationship is of the whole blood or half blood or by marriage, and
(b) whether the relationship is natural or depends on the adoption of a person."sibling" of an adopted person means a brother or sister of the person, whether the relationship is of the whole blood or half blood.