Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Where, before the chief executive makes an adoption order in favour of any prospective adopter or prospective adopters whose name or names is or are included in the assessment register, in the chief executive's opinion such time has elapsed since the making of an assessment in respect of the prospective adopter or prospective adopters pursuant to section 13B or since the making of an interim order in favour of the prospective adopter or prospective adopters that it is desirable that an assessment should be made pursuant to this subsection, the chief executive shall make an assessment of whether--
(a) the prospective adopter or each of the prospective adopters is, at the time the assessment is made, of good repute and a fit and proper person to become an adoptive parent; and
(b) where there is a child available at the material time for placement--the welfare and interests of the child will be promoted by making an adoption order in favour of the prospective adopter or prospective adopters;
and the chief executive shall not make the adoption order unless the assessment last made is favourable in all respects.
(1A) Where the prospective adopters are a married couple, the chief executive may make 1 assessment in relation to both of them.
(2) When the chief executive is about to make an adoption order in favour of any prospective adopter or prospective adopters whose name or names is or are included in an adoption list and in the chief executive's opinion such time has elapsed since the making of an assessment pursuant to section 13B or since the making of an interim order in favour of the prospective adopter or prospective adopters that, in the chief executive's opinion, it is desirable that an assessment should be made pursuant to this subsection, the chief executive shall first make an assessment of whether the welfare and interests of the child will be promoted by making the adoption order in favour of the prospective adopter or prospective adopters, and the chief executive shall not make the adoption order unless the assessment is favourable in all respects.
(3) For the purposes of an assessment to be made in respect of a prospective adopter the chief executive shall, subject to section 14B(2), have regard to all matters prescribed by section 13C as if the assessment to be made were an assessment under section 13B.