Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsection (2), upon the making of an adoption order, the adopted child shall have as the adopted child's surname the surname of the adopter or adopters and shall have as the adopted child's first name or christian name or names such name or names as the chief executive, in the adoption order, approves on the application of the adopter or adopters.
(2) Where, before the making of the adoption order, the adopted child has been generally known by a particular surname, the chief executive may, in the adoption order, order that the child shall have that name as the adopted child's surname.
(3) Nothing in this section prevents the changing of any name of an adopted child, after the making of the adoption order, in accordance with any other Act or law.