Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated ActsSubject to section 26, where--
(a) the chief executive proposes to make an adoption order and is satisfied that the child in respect of whom the order is to be made--
(i) has not attained the age of 18 years; and
(ii) entered Australia as a non-citizen child; and
(b) the child has been in the care of the persons in whose favour the adoption order is proposed to be made for at least 12 months; and
(c) the chief executive considers that the making of the adoption order in favour of those persons would be in the best interests of the child;
no consent to the adoption is required.