Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) The chief executive must, under this section, keep--
(a) lists of the names of persons who are entitled, as prescribed, to have their names entered in an adoption list; and
(b) registers of the names of persons who are entitled, as prescribed, to have their names entered in the expression of interest register or the assessment register.
(2) An adoption list shall be kept in respect of each of the following classes--
(a) applicants to become adoptive parents of special needs children;
(b) applicants to become adoptive parents of children in respect of whom they are relatives.
(3) For children other than children mentioned in subsection (2)(a) and (b)--
(a) a register must be kept of persons who, under this Act, have expressed an interest in being assessed as suitable to be prospective adopters; and
(b) a register must be kept of persons for whom there have been favourable assessments by the chief executive, under section 13B or 14, or by the tribunal on reviews, that the persons are of good repute and fit and proper persons to become adoptive parents.
(4) The chief executive shall--
(a) keep each adoption list in a form that indicates the order in which the applications by virtue of which names are to be included in the list were lodged with the chief executive; and
(b) keep, for each adoption list and register, the particulars the chief executive considers necessary about each person whose name is entered in the list or register and a description of children that the person's application or expression of interest relates to.
(5) If--
(a) a person makes an application under section 13AA; and
(b) the person's name is or, within 1 month before the date of the application, was included in a similar list (the interstate list) kept by a person approved for the purposes of the law of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth;
the application is taken to be an application made to the chief executive on the day certified, in writing, by the person having custody of the interstate list to be the day on which the person's application to be included in the interstate list was received or was treated, under the interstate law, as having been received.
(6) If--
(a) a person expresses interest in being assessed as suitable to be a prospective adopter even though the person's expression of interest is not in response to an invitation; and
(b) the person's name is or, within 1 month before the date of the expression of interest, was included in a similar register, kept by a person approved for the purposes of the law of another State or a Territory of the Commonwealth;
the expression of interest is taken to be an expression of interest received by the chief executive in response to an invitation with a closure day that is the day after the day on which the chief executive received the expression of interest.
(7) In this Act--
(a) the list of applicants mentioned in subsection (2)(a) is the Special Needs Children's Adoption List; and
(b) the list of applicants mentioned in subsection (2)(b) is the Relative Children's Adoption List; and
(c) the register of persons mentioned in subsection (3)(a) is the expression of interest register; and
(d) the register of persons mentioned in subsection (3)(b) is the assessment register.