Northern Territory Consolidated Acts Northern Territory Consolidated Acts32. Consents given under law of a State or another Territory
Where -
(a) a person whose consent to the adoption of a child is required by this Division has, in accordance with the law of a State or of another Territory of the Commonwealth, duly signed an instrument of consent for the adoption of a child by any person approved by or on behalf of the officer performing in that State or other Territory functions similar to those of the Minister;
(b) that officer or a person acting on his or her behalf, has, by writing under his or her hand, authorised the Minister to make arrangements for the adoption of the child in the Territory; and
(c) the consent evidenced by the instrument of consent has not been revoked in accordance with the law of that State or other Territory,
that instrument of consent is, for the purposes of this Act, to be deemed to be an instrument executed in accordance with this Division and evidencing a subsisting consent to the adoption of the child.