ADOPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 59 59. Recognition of Australian and certain foreign adoptions

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ADOPTION ACT 1988 - SECT 59

PART IV - Recognition of Adoptions 59. Recognition of Australian and certain foreign adoptions

(1) In this section,

"prescribed place" means –
(a) another State; and

(b) a Territory; and

(c) New Zealand; and

(d) a convention country; and

(e) an agreement country.

(2) The adoption of a person which occurred –

(a) before or after the commencement of this section; and

(b) in a place that was a prescribed place at the time of the adoption; and

(c) in accordance with the law of that place at that time –

has, so long as the adoption has not been rescinded under the law in force in that place, the same effect as an adoption order made under this Act and has no other effect.

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