Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) This section applies if the chief executive considers it necessary to ensure the placement needs of children are met by increasing the number of persons whose names are entered in the expression of interest register.
(2) The chief executive must invite persons to express interest in being assessed as suitable to be prospective adopters.
(3) The invitation must be made by notice in a newspaper circulating throughout the State and also may be made in other ways the chief executive considers appropriate.
(4) The invitation must state--
(a) how a person must express the person's interest; and
(b) the day by which expressions of interest must be received by the chief executive for the invitation (the closure day).
(5) The chief executive must not include a person's name in an expression of interest register unless--
(a) the person, under this Act, expressed an interest in being assessed as suitable to be a prospective adopter in response to an invitation under this section; and
(b) the person's expression of interest was received by the closure day for the invitation.
(6) Subsection (5) is subject to sections 17(6) and 71.