Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsWhere--
(a) a person whose consent to the adoption of a child is required by section 19 has, in accordance with the law of another State or of a Territory of the Commonwealth, duly signed an instrument of consent to the adoption of the child by any person approved by or on behalf of the officer empowered in that other State or in that Territory to approve persons as fit and proper persons to adopt children; and
(b) that officer, or a person acting on the officer's behalf, has, by writing under his or her hand, authorised the chief executive to make arrangements for the adoption of the child in Queensland; and
(c) the consent evidenced by the instrument of consent has not been revoked in accordance with the law of that other State or of that Territory;
that instrument of consent shall, for the purposes of this Act, be deemed to be an instrument executed in accordance with this division evidencing a subsisting consent, in accordance with section 19(1), to the adoption of the child.