Queensland Consolidated Acts Queensland Consolidated Acts(1) A person specified in subsection (2) may apply to the Supreme Court for an order declaring that an adoption of a person was effected (whether before or after the commencement of this Act) under the law of a country outside the Commonwealth and the Territories of the Commonwealth, and that the adoption is one to which section 37A or 38 applies, and the court may hear and determine the application and, if it thinks fit, make an order accordingly.
(2) The persons who may make an application under subsection (1) in relation to an adoption are the adopted child, the adoptive parent or either or both of the adoptive parents, or a person tracing a relationship, by virtue of the adoption, through or to the adopted child.
(3) Where an application is made under this section, a copy of the application shall be served, 21 days at the least before the date fixed for the hearing of the application, on the chief executive who shall be entitled to intervene in and to become a party to the proceedings concerning the application.
(3A) Where an application is made under this section, the court may--
(a) direct that notice of the application be given to such persons (who may include the Attorney-General) as the court thinks fit; or
(b) direct that a person be made a party to the application; or
(c) permit a person having an interest in the matter to intervene in, and become a party to, the proceedings.
(4) Where the court makes an order upon the application, it may include in the order such particulars in relation to the adoption, the adopted child and the adoptive parent or parents as the court finds to be established.
(5) In the case of an application to the court under subsection (1), the court may make such orders as to costs and security for costs, whether by way of interlocutory order or otherwise, as the court thinks just.
(6) For the purposes of the laws of Queensland, an order under this section binds the Crown in right of the State of Queensland, whether or not notice was given to the Attorney-General, but, except as provided in subsection (7), does not affect--
(a) the rights of another person unless that person was--
(i) a party to the proceedings for the order or a person claiming through such a party; or
(ii) a person to whom notice of the application for the order was given or a person claiming through such a person; or
(b) an earlier judgment, order or decree of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(7) In proceedings in a court in Queensland, being proceedings relating to the rights of a person other than a person referred to in subsection (6)(a)(i) or (ii), the production of a copy of an order made under this section, certified by the registrar of the Supreme Court to be a true copy, shall be evidence that an adoption was effected in accordance with the particulars contained in the order and that the adoption is one to which section 37A or 38 applies.