Tasmanian Consolidated Acts Tasmanian Consolidated Acts
(1) A consent to the adoption of a child given for the purposes of this Act by a person may be revoked by notice in writing served on the Secretary before the expiration of 30 days after the date on which the instrument of consent was signed and not otherwise.
(2) Service of a notice on the Secretary under subsection (1) shall be effected by delivering it personally or be sending it to him by certified mail.
(3) On receiving notice in writing of the revocation of a consent to the adoption of a child, the Secretary shall, if it appears to him that the consent was given to the principal officer of an approved agency, forthwith deliver or send by post a copy of the notice to that officer.
(4) Where the Secretary releases a child to the parents or to one of the parents of the child as mentioned in section 40(1)(c), any consent given to the adoption of that child, is, by force of this subsection, revoked.