Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) Subject to subsections (2) and (3), where--
(a) a child is adopted in a country (other than New Zealand) outside the Commonwealth and the Territories of the Commonwealth, whether or not the adoption is one that pursuant to this Act has the same effect as an adoption order under this Act; and
(b) the adoption of that child has been in force for a period not exceeding 12 months; and
(c) the adopter or 1 of the adopters was not, at the time of making the order of adoption in relation to that child, a national or citizen of the country in which the order was made; and
(d) that child is present in Queensland;
the chief executive may supervise the welfare and interests of that child for a period of 12 months commencing on the date of arrival of the child in Queensland and any person authorised in writing by the chief executive in that behalf either generally or in any particular case has a right of access to the child at all reasonable times during that period.
(2) Where a child whose welfare and interests may be supervised by the chief executive pursuant to subsection (1) has, after being adopted but before the child's arrival in Queensland, been resident in any State (other than Queensland) or in a Territory of the Commonwealth or in New Zealand the period during which the child is subject to the chief executive's supervision shall be reduced proportionately to the period of the child's residence in that other State or Territory or in New Zealand.
(3) The chief executive may exempt any child to whom subsection (1) would otherwise apply from the provisions of that subsection whereupon, for as long as the exemption subsists, that subsection shall not apply in relation to that child.