Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts21. Suitability to adopt non-citizen child
(1) Where the assessment of a person alone or a couple who has made an application under section 17 in respect of a non-citizen child has been carried out, the Minister shall, having received a report from an approved person in respect of the suitability to adopt of the person or the couple and decided whether in his or her opinion the person or the couple is suitable to adopt, give as soon as practicable written notice to the person or the couple of his or her decision that -
(a) the person or the couple is suitable to adopt a non-citizen child; or
(b) the person or the couple is not suitable to adopt a non-citizen child and the reasons for that decision.
(2) The Minister shall cause records to be kept of an assessment of the person or the couple carried out under this section.
(3) On receipt of notice under subsection (1)(a) of the decision of the Minister that a person or a couple is suitable to adopt, the person or the couple may proceed to have arrangements made for the allocation of a non-citizen child to them for adoption under the law in force in the Territory.